"How wedidadoreandenvythem, the idols ofourcollegeyears-hemingway and Faulkner, Frost and Eliot, MaryMcCarthy and Flanneryo 'connor and Eudora Welty!" wrote JohnUpdike.
Munster's pack, which includes the likes of Paul O'Connell, Jerry Flannery, John Hayes, Denis Leamy, Donncha O'Callaghan and David Wallace, is regarded as one of the most attritional in Europe.
Both Jerry Flannery and John Hayes, who have had limited action this season, remain in the front row with Brisbane-born Court making only his second start for Ireland following his full debut in the defeat by Argentina in Buenos Aires back in 2007.
Dr. Collins also sees possible breakthroughs in the work of Ehud Isacoff, JohnFlannery and their colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, who are working on a novel therapy for blindness.