Derby joy for Leinster

Leinster 21 Connacht 11

Derby joy for Leinster
Sat, 20 Dec, 2014 - 00:00
Brendan O’Brien

The visitors trailed by just three points with the last minutes evaporating from the clock before Leinster secured the ‘W’ with a Zane Kirchner try and Jimmy Gopperth conversion, but it was a close-run thing.

Leinster were better in some respects to the side seen in recent weeks. Their choice of front row, fared well and the centre combination of Noel Reid and Luke Fitzgerald fizzed and bubbled.

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