Leinster bank on strength in depth

This is Cian Healy’s seventh season knocking around the Leinster dressing-room and the Ireland prop can’t remember the province’s squad being stronger or deeper than it is now.

That must be a reassuring in a week such as this which will end on Sunday against Clermont Auvergne whose unbeaten record at Stade Marcel Michelin has now reached the half-century mark.

However, Brian O’Driscoll will play no part in this upcoming back-to-back against Clermont. Neither will Rob Kearney or Luke Fitzgerald while Eoin O’Malley and Dave Kearney are operating at less than full power in training this week.