Peter O'Mahony was speaking live on TG4 when he caught sight of his mother Caroline holding a poster that had a lawnmower on it that read 'I'm Peter O'Mahony's Mum and I'm retiring from mowing the lawn!'. The former Munster and Ireland captain was talking as the camera panned to his mother, who was holding the poster up for Taoiseach Micheal Martin to photograph. "Jesus wept, it's my mother, yeah," said the bemused 35-year-old, whose love of gardening is well known as he posts videos on social media of his work in his garden. O'Mahony was speaking after the Reds' victory over Benetton at Virgin Media Park, a result that not only extends Munster's season into the URC quarter-finals but also secures Champions Cup rugby for the province next season. It was his final appearance in his native Cork, however, and O'Mahony told TG4: "It's great to have my family here, there's about 20 of my schoolfriends down here, the kids are here. "I was picking my young fella up from school and I met Dave O'Brien who was playing for Con when I was following Con and he said there were 20 of his buddies going and it's great to have support like this, and it's great to be able to repay him with that kind of a performance, especially in the second half. "I will miss it, yeah." Asked how important the victory was, O'Mahony replied: "It was obviously very important. Sitting in eighth, the only result we had to get was a win. We dealt with that and I think we ended up with a bonus point so that helps." After the game, skipper Tadhg Beirne said that O'Mahony had spoken to the players at half-time after Benetton went in with a 14-10 lead. Asked what changed in the second half, the Reds talisman said: "We stopped feeling a bit sorry for ourselves. "Some of our efforts were poor, getting up off the ground and stuff and we had a word at half time and said that we could either let the pressure get to us or we could walk tall into a defining 40 minutes for us and I thought we did that. "There's a whole lot of pressure, kid, when it comes to this. You see the support we have, the pressure, the expectations - you know, we don't want to be finishing eighth in a competition, we want to be competing and this gives us a chance now." Munster's victory moves them to sixth place heading into the play-offs. Asked who he wants in the last eight, O'Mahony replied: "I couldn't care less!" Get the latest sports headlines straight to your inbox by signing up for free email alerts.