Cullen glad to have the ace to play

Leo Cullen could have landed on any number of superlatives to describe Jonathan Sexton as he stood in departures at Dublin Airport yesterday deliberating on the out-half’s return for this Champions Cup engagement in Glasgow.

That he reached first for ‘experienced’ was probably no coincidence.

“It’s great to have Johnny back,” the Leinster head coach explained. “The experience that he has is fantastic and he has already had a couple of games where he has been key, in terms of the game against Edinburgh at home and the game against Munster as well.”