Ryan: 'Our stint in the Aviva had run its course'

Leinster returned to their modern home at the RDS Laya Arena last Friday night, with a routine enough victory over Cardiff. "I'll probably get fined 500 quid," James Ryan jokes, after the forbidden acronym RDS escapes his lips a second time during Monday afternoon's Zoom conference. Leinster played their first game at the Anglesea Road venue against Cardiff in October 2005. The famous old site had been primarily associated with show-jumping since time immemorial - though Shamrock Rovers did enjoy the most stable and successful period of their nomadic era at the RDS between 1990 and 1996.