Fogarty: Leinster hungry for more success

When Leinster saw off Leicester Tigers in Edinburgh to claim a first Heineken Cup, back in 2009, most of the players had little enough to distract them aside from the celebrations on their return to Dublin.

Five of them were facing a rapid turnaround for duties with the British and Irish Lions but the Magners League had already been put to bed before the European final and Declan Kidney’s Ireland were already in the middle of business in North America.

The national team actually beat Canada in Vancouver the same day Leinster made history in Murrayfield and they would do without a single Leinster representative — and nine Munster Lions — again a week later when accounting for the USA in Santa Clara.