No distractions for Leinster ahead of second round of Guinness PRO14

Leo Cullen has warned that Leinster cannot allow their upcoming South African trip to distract them from the business at hand tonight when they face Cardiff Blues at the RDS in the second round of the Guinness PRO14.

Leinster, along with Zebre, will act as guinea pigs when they make the first competitive visits by a European club to Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth — they will make base in Cape Town and then Johannesburg — for a 12-day trip that starts on Tuesday.

“The guy who organises all of our travel, (operations manager) Ronan O’Donnell, he’s probably one of the longest serving members of staff that we have. He’s had a workload with it. All the travel, more often than not, has been seamless for the players and for the squad. He puts a huge amount of time into it,” Cullen explained. “He’s well on top of things.”