Munster hold on to beat Racing after Foley tributes

Munster start their Champions Cup campaign with a 33-25 win over Racing 92 on an emotional night at Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Munster scored five tries to start their 2026-27 Champions Cup campaign with a win Tries: Gleeson, McCarthy, Beirne, F Wycherley, Casey Cons: O'Shea 3, Hanrahan Munster started their Champions Cup campaign with a 33-25 win over Racing 92 on an emotional night at Pairc Ui Chaoimh. The game was played a decade and a day on from the passing of Munster legend Anthony Foley – the first Munster captain to lift the Heineken Cup – who died in his sleep before a scheduled fixture between these two sides in October 2016.

Before kick-off in Cork, the Shannon RFC choir gave a moving rendition of There is an Isle, the club song that formed such a memorable part of Foley's Limerick funeral. Neither side took to the field with a player wearing Foley's number eight, while there was also a minute's applause in the eighth minute of a game attended by members of the former Ireland back row's family. Munster led by 15 points early in the second half after Tadhg Beirne followed first-half tries from Brian Gleeson and Shay McCarthy with a score of his own, but Racing were allowed back into the game. Second-half tries from Wilfried Hulleu,