Stars of the future on parade
The games of Tom Gleeson, Richard Lane, Brian Tuohy, Jeremy Manning and Gerry Hurley will come up in serious conversation when the Heineken Cup squad for next year is being finalised.
Ironically, one of the opposition could also come into the equation. The Basque captain was Shaun Hegarty, whose father played for New Zealand but his grandparents are from Cork and he qualifies for Ireland.