Gordon D’Arcy: How Leinster built a self-sustaining ecosystem

Gordon D’Arcy remembers when angst was the daily diet in Dublin.

Fancy isn’t the first priority in finals.

Run a mental stocktake on deciders across most sports down the years, and the column of stinkers would soon loom over the classics like a skyscraper in a shanty town, and Leinster’s defeat of Leicester Tigers 10 years ago this month was not among the exceptions to that rule.