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Published 21:09 28 Oct 2016 BST
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If Ulster have been guilty of anything over the past decade since they last won silverware, it is that they don't put sides away when they should.
14-5 after the break and they had the running of it for the first 15 minutes without ever really cutting through the red ranks. Marshall, who could well partner Robbie Henshaw for Ireland next week, got his team on the front foot with some decent carries but Munster were not unduly troubled.
The hosts' took a breather and Munster took advantage. They worked their way up the left-hand flank and mauled themselves deep into the Ulster 22. A couple of picks and drives before Jaco Taute took possession a few metres out and crashed over. With Keatley off, Rory Scannell converted and it was suddenly a two-point game.
An unfortunate incident with a stray firework shot into the skies above Belfast led to a Jackson penalty miss that elicited disbelieving laughter around Kingspan Stadium.
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No-one was laughing on 75 minutes when a Munster side, now in the ascendancy, barrelled deep into the Ulster half and drove white jerseys back until they were in drop goal position.
No Keatley, no Tyler Bleyendaal... no problem.
Rory Scannell had been practicing drop goals in the warm-ups and it paid off. Over she soared.
Fists pumped, job done.
He is not travelling to Chicago but we may yet see him in green next month.
Munster are back and there's no bloody doubt about it now.
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