Leinster's ensemble cast grabs the limelight from the battle at No.10

Selected at out-half for only the 14th time in his Leinster career, this was by far the biggest opportunity for Ciaran Frawley in his preferred position,

Leinster’s Ciaran Frawley reaches for the try line

Go to a movie and you can be guaranteed that the leading man or woman you saw in all the ads and on all the billboards will be saving the day. Sport doesn’t work like that. The casts at play have the same hierarchical order but the pitch is a democratic state where anyone can have the last word.

Croke Park has seen all this before.