Jack Conan stars as Leinster run riot

Leinster 57 Montpellier 3: This wasn’t supposed to be easy. Billed as a true test of just how much progress Leinster have made this season, it took just three tries in 14 blistering first-half minutes for Leinster to swat aside 14-man Montpellier and book their places in the knockout stages of this season’s Champions Cup.

The rest was all gravy.

It will be the province’s 12th time to feature in the European Cup’s quarter-finals in just 16 seasons and the manner in which they scythed through a Montpellier side that arrived in Dublin with everything still to play for bodes well. Very well, indeed.