'The pressure is there every week' - Craig Casey relishing Belfast visit

Craig Casey says Munster can't dwell on their St Stephen's Day defeat to Leinster, as they prepare for another crucial Interpro on Sunday against Ulster.

The 20-19 loss against the eastern province leaves Munster in 11th place in the BKT United Rugby Championship table, and although they're only one point back from the playoffs and Champions Cup qualification, several of their top eight rivals have one, if not two games in hand over Graham Rowntree's side.

While Monday's loss against Leinster was a 10th defeat out of 11 against their big rivals, and fourth in a row at Thomond Park, the province looked a lot closer to Leo Cullen's side than in any of their recent meetings.

However, the frustration of how they gave away a 14-6 lead to trail 20-14, all while Leinster's Max Deegan was in the sin-bin, far outweighed the positives, according to the scrum-half.

"It is no consolation now just after the defeat," he said of the losing bonus-point.

Having fallen 20-14 behind, they got themselves back within a score heading into the final quarter of an hour when Patrick Campbell dived over in the corner, but failed to land a shot on Leinster in the last 15 minutes, much to the frustration of Casey.

"We were attacking at one stage around the 50 and then we knock on a ball. Jamie Osborne, in fairness, throws an unbelievable offload and I don't think we got out of our 50 from there on in, so obviously hugely frustrating.

"They are the moments that we need to be better at. We will look at that and see what we could have done better and learn from it. I mean that is all you can do now. We can't change the result right now, but we can only get better."

And Casey (above), who impressed off the bench at Thomond Park, says the players will be their