Cullen challenges Leinster to show 'character' in URC run-in after crushing Saints loss

It's Zebre next up in the URC after Saturday's home defeat. 

DEFIANT: Leinster head coach Leo Cullen dejected after the game. Pic: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

Leinster 34 Northampton Saints 37 

The joke after Rory McIlroy won the Masters last month was that this wasn’t, and wouldn’t be, the greatest Irish sporting achievement of 2025. That, the wags said, was Cork’s lifting of the Liam MacCarthy Cup long before the All-Ireland had even started.