Four tries in the opening quarter meant Munster’s Saturday night URC visit to Rodney Parade to face the Dragons was a comfortable one, as Cork’s Ben O’Connor capped off his first start in a Munster shirt with his first try.
Munster scored a peach of a try in the third minute, to get the scoreboard moving, as Shane Daly put Tom Ahern into space down the left touchline and the big second row showed his famed pace to race clear, and he was able to put his supporting winger Diarmuid Kilgallen away to score in the left corner.
Gavin Coombes was just short when reaching for the line in the 7th minute after another big carry by Ahern got Munster rolling, and in the 16th minute is was a…