MUNSTER Rugby are to go ahead with their next game on Saturday following the sudden death of head coach Anthony Foley.
The match will take place a day after the 42-year-old's funeral in Co Clare.
Foley was found dead in the team hotel in Paris on Sunday hours before Munster were to play Racing 92 in the European Champions Cup.
During a press conference in Limerick yesterday, Munster director of rugby Rassie Erasmus said the team would take to the pitch against Glasgow at the city's Thomond Park as scheduled on Saturday.
"We don't want to miss this opportunity for him," Mr Erasmus said.
"It's a tough choice. It's not easy either way, but we don't want to miss this opportunity."
Ireland and Munster back row Peter O'Mahony broke down during the press conference as he tried to put into words what Foley meant to him and the team.
He recalled Foley being as happy with the narrow win in his first game as a 60-point victory.
"He was a man that wanted a Munster jersey win," he said.
"I'm not going to do him justice here. It's all the words I can say, to be honest."
A French coroner said on Tuesday that Foley's death was due to a heart condition which led to a build-up of fluid in his lungs.
The coroner said the death could be "linked to a heart problem", while further toxicological tests are ongoing and results are "expected in several weeks".
His body was flown home last night ahead of Requiem Mass at St Flannan's Church in his home town of Killaloe tomorrow.
Mr Erasmus said that Thomond Park held a special place in Foley's heart.
"As difficult as it will be to play the next game, no matter the time, the opposition or the venue, we have an opportunity to play there this Saturday," he said.
"That's something that's hugely important to all of us."
He added that although the match was going ahead, it would be second to everything else.
"He would never want us to say that the game is secondary, it's just not the man he was, but it will be," he said.
"It's all about Anthony, now, and this weekend, and will be for a long time."
He added: "It's difficult. I know the players had so much respect for him that they are trying to get on with it , trying to do the job the way we think and know Anthony would want us to go on with it.
"That's what drives us and makes us committed to get a proper performance out there."
