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GUTS, character, commitment.

These characteristics are no longer the sole preserve of Munster. In a pulsating Heineken Cup final, Leinster answered all the questions posed of them in the build up to this game with an emphatic second-half fightback that now sees every trophy on offer in northern hemisphere rugby in Irish hands.

There was a perfect symmetry to this contest as Leinster completed their journey to European glory on the ground where it all started last October with a bonus point win against their tournament bogey side, Edinburgh, all be it in different circumstances in front of a meagre audience of 5,372 patrons.