Leinster v Munster, 2009: The game that changed Irish rugby forever
Flashback
Brian O'Driscoll skips away from Ronan O'Gara to score Leinster's third and final try in the 2009 Heineken Cup semi-final. Photo: Brendan Moran / SPORTSFILE
Ronan O'Gara agrees to revisit the memory, but still the disappointment burns. Eleven years have passed since Munster arrived at Croke Park as European kingpins and ran into Leinster's rising blue tide and the wound remains open.
"Jesus, it's Croke Park. Biggest crowd of all time. It's why you play sport," he says down the line. "We were on a roll, by God the train got an almighty belt and unfortunately the train has never got back on from Munster's point of view."
