Michael Bent ending on a high after nine years at Leinster's coalface

Michael Bent during Leinster Rugby squad training at UCD. Picutre: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Logic rather than any devotion to chronology dictates that we go back to the start when sifting through Michael Bent’s time in Ireland which comes to an end next week when Leinster fulfill the last of their Rainbow Cup duties.

The veteran prop and his family are off back to New Zealand where he has a mind to put his rugby experience to work as a coach with the local club and put a long-held qualification as an electrician and instrumentation tech to good use.