KEY POINTS:
The next day they were still there. Those Munster flags that had draped the city in red. Still flying proud in every doorway, small concrete front lawn and shop window.
Admittedly, not many if any had turned up for work the next day. Local radio station Switch South
West was running the skeleton crew and I was in the enviable position of having a late check out.
Now to the Guinness. Yes it does taste different, and that's a matter for concern because after getting back to London you can taste the difference which means the stuff we get back in New Zealand is, well...
So it looks like my addiction to the Black stuff is due to end in mid-December. I'm looking for an adequate iron supplement with some urgency.
Munster had more under the hood than I thought they would. Hell, they kept coming and coming. You can build a mighty performance off the back of a grizzly tight five and the Munster front-men looked at the Blackness like they were the last pint in Limerick and as the saying goes - 'drank for Ireland'.
A small mention now to RyanAir, a cut price airline with a propensity to be shot down rather than land. It was on the return flight that I heard the fanfare you'd associate with the Racetrack.
"That's another RyanAir flight arriving on time!" exclaimed the recorded voice.
How apt it should linked to gambling
And now the not so insignificant issue of Wales.
Cardiff again is set to roar to the ebbs and flows of these two great national teams. Not that Limerick isn't a rugby city, nor Munster a fine rugby tradition.
But this is Wales. Where New Zealanders go to coach, where history floods every nook and cranny of the Millennium Stadium.
Cardiff has been a place where the purity of our Blackness has somehow never quite been enough, even though we've won there - and failed.
Wales with its swift defence and planned structure - there is talent on this Dragon and they know it. This is no guaranteed outcome for New Zealand.
Granted a win over Wales would bring them in behind us as we square to England but feathers will fly in the 'diff tomorrow.
Ryan Jones is the frontrunner for Lions Captain and Gatland moving him to blindside against the Springboks, show's the coach feels that six tight forwards are better than five plus with Williams Wales can challenge for the ball as far out as second five-eighth.
So I see Wales using a form of blunt force trauma in the tight when tackling, short side yardage on attack, with a barrage of territorial gain kicks, desperation and Shane Williams.
New Zealand will need the Number 10 Diamond Cutter special for this match. Just as well we've got one.
