Donal Lenihan: Leinster may not be only Irish victims of O'Gara's coaching smarts

La Rochelle Head Coach Ronan O'Gara and Forwards Coach Donnacha Ryan celebrate with the Heineken Champions Cup

From the moment the final whistle blew in the 2018 decider against Racing 92 in Bilbao, Leinster have been obsessed with adding a fifth Heineken Champions Cup star to their shirts.

The prime motivation back then was in winning the race to become the first European club to achieve that incredible milestone. Since then however, all Leinster have experienced in Europe is an irritating cocktail of frustration and underachievement after failing to deliver in the knockout stage when the stakes were at their highest.