Leinster hold off Munster’s late charge

Munster U20 18 Leinster U20 19

Leinster built up a 19-6 lead five minutes into the second half but despite tries by Munster’s Jack O’Donoughue and Lee Nicholas inside four minutes, the visitors held on.

Cian Kelleher had two tries and Garry Ringrose added another on 55 minutes but Lyons kept Munster in touch with his kicking.

Munster had two tries in the last 10 minutes, but it proved too little, too late.

MUNSTER U20: D Johnston; A Wooton, N Hodson, D Goggin, A Enright; G Lyons, R Foley; A Slattery, B Burns, R Burke; J Madigan, D Moloney; L Nicholas, A Butler, J O’Donoughue. Replacements: G O’Shea for Enright (44), M Lynch for Slattery (44), S Sterling for Hodson (64), M Abbot for Burns (64),

LEINSTER U20: B Dardis; C Kelleher, A Byrne, G Ringrose, I Fitzpatrick; R Byrne, N McCarthy; I Soroka, D Donnellan, O Heffernan; R Molony, S Gardiner; J Murphy, M Triggs, P Timmons. Replacements: S Coughlan for Timmons (3 mins), S O’Neill for A Byrne (27), C McKeon for R. Byrne (58), S Delahunt for Donnellan (60), C Trenier for Heffernan (70), D Coulson for Soroka (76).

Referee: S Douglas, IRFU.