Leinster head coach Joe Schmidt has named an all-Irish starting XV to face the Cardiff Blues in Saturday’s RaboDirect PRO12 clash in the RDS (6.30pm).

Ireland Under-20s 53 Scotland Under-20s 23

England 10 Ireland 25

Ireland U-20s 39 Scotland U-20s 12

SO, the party is over, the Connacht dream of Parker Pen Challenge Cup glory ended, with it the concurrent dream that would have come as reward, a place in next year’s Heineken Cup.