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Connacht 24 Munster 30<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great crowd turned up for the historic occassion of Connacht’s first competitive match at McHale Park in Castlebar, unfortunately the team didn’t quite live up to the occasion as they fell to their 6th defeat in the Interpros this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danny Deegan and host Alan take ou through the match and they are joined by Dave Finn, Rob Murphy and John Gunnigan to pick the bones out of the match and talk about the occasion in Castlebar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hear the post match thoughts of Cullie Tucker and Dave Heffernan who spoke to William Davies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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