Dream season complete as Connacht crowned champions

Connacht 20 Leinster 10: The Connacht team bus was a while leaving Murrayfield on Saturday night.

There was, after all, plenty to drink in at the end of a day which had seen the province deliver on the promise of the previous three years.

Surrounded by around a thousand of their supporters who had enveloped the vehicle and were occupying every vantage point on the stadium’s structure, the players who had earlier stunned four-time champions Leinster into submission looked out at the scene and heard ‘The Fields of Athenry’ being sung with satisfaction and pride.