nMUNSTER

are the big winners in the Joey Carbery drama. Ireland benefit but it will still be a disaster if at the World Cup next year Johnny Sexton is injured; Carbery is not that good.

Munster got lucky in a process started by the IRFU, when pointing out the absence of a fly half in Ulster and wondering if someone from Leinster might move north. That alerted Munster, and suddenly they could make a play for the player they need most: a quality out half. The partnership of Carbery (left) and Conor Murray can transform them.