A look back at the round five action from the European Rugby Champions Cup for the Irish Examiner, first published in the print edition of Tuesday 20th January 2015.

And so, it ends. Munster, semi-finalists in both of the last two Heineken Cup campaigns, now face a dead rubber on the final pool weekend of the shiny new European tournament.

This is not how it was supposed to go. But then, in a pool containing the beaten finalists from the last two seasons, expectations from reasonable observers will have been tempered from the off.

The figures from Saturday make for painful reading…

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