Jamie addicted to winning big games

Jamie Heaslip’s disinterest in any rugby match in which he isn’t taking part is well-known, but the Leinster number eight couldn’t ignore last year’s Heineken Cup final between Toulon and Clermont Auvergne.

Jamie addicted to   winning big  games

Two defeats to the latter Top 14 outfit diverted the Irish province into the Amlin Challenge Cup which they won courtesy of a victory over Stade Francais at the RDS the evening before the big one in the Aviva.

Heaslip was a resident of Ringsend at the time, a short hop from the stadium and a favoured parking bay for the masses, and he joked yesterday about how he cursed the vehicles that piled up around his house.

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