Local lads give Blues Euro edge

Ian Madigan believes that pride in, and attachment to, their home province will prove to be the difference next Sunday when Leinster travel to take on Toulon’s European champions at the Stade Felix Mayo.

Munster will no doubt hope something similar.

It seemed only fitting that the Leinster pivot should beat the provincial drum on an evening when over 50,000 people filled the Aviva Stadium for what amounted to nothing more than an appetiser for the week to come.