A Matt Currie hat-trick helped Edinburgh to a 34-28 victory over Munster at Musgrave Park. With the game played in Cork rather than Thomond Park, Sean Everitt's side became the first United Rugby Championship (URC) visitors to Munster's lesser used home ground to win since 2019.

Mistakes continued to thwart Munster’s ambition, handling errors and losing the aerial battle but by far the most debilitating, the scrum. Edinburgh turned down kickable penalties that would have taken them more than two scores clear in favour of chasing further tries. It allowed Munster a chance to grab something from the game, which they did.

Munster’s hopes of securing a home URC quarter-final suffered a serious setback as Edinburgh scored a bonus-point victory in Cork on Friday night. In a week which saw the province announce Chiefs boss Clayton McMillan as their new head coach for next season and club icons Conor Murray and Peter O’Mahony declare their intentions to hang up their red jerseys this summer,

Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt tells Premier Sports: "Very pleased. We had to go back to the drawing board when you lose at home. "Our set-piece functioned really well which allowed us to put pressure on them from a field position point of view,

Munster crumbled to a rare defeat at Virgin Media Park as Matt Currie's hat-trick set Edinburgh up for a famous 34-28 United Rugby Championship win.

MUNSTER Rugby's 10-game winning run in the United Rugby Championship at Virgin Media Park came to a shuddering halt as Edinburgh Rugby inflicted a deserved 34-28 defeat on their hosts in front of a sold-out attendance of 8,800 on Friday night.

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An eleventh win in a row at Virgin Media Park seemed a given against an Edinburgh side which hadn’t won away from home since last April, but Munster were blown away by the last