Seven up Sexton makes Munster pay

ANOTHER packed house, another tight finish. It never disappoints, does it?

Slowish to start, it blossomed into a more symphonic tussle after the interval and, if the result was just about right, there was something for both sides to cling to as well as fret over ahead of next week’s ventures into Europe.

Leinster dominated for large tracts and yet clung on at the end, much of it with 14 men after Jamie Heaslip’s yellow card and on an evening when their scrum came under more and more pressure as the clock ticked down.