'Everyone understands the history of what Croke Park represents to the Irish people'

JAMES LOWE RECALLS Leinster ’s 2018 Champions Cup final win fondly, even if he’d liked to have been more centrally involved.

“We were in a bakery at nine o’clock in the morning, and we weren’t having croissants,” says Lowe. “That was a cracker of a day in Bilbao. The boys performed so well. Lowe’s subsequent memories of finals rugby carry a more bitter taste. He was a mainstay in the team by the time Leinster lost the 2019 decider to Saracens, and also lined out in the 2022 and 2023 defeats to La Rochelle, not to mention the couple of knockout game losses that came between.

“Look, we have been trying ever since then and we have put ourselves in a very good position now to give ourselves another crack and that’s what we’ll do. We’ll keep knocking on the door and one day it will open.” Coming here, it’s magnificent, when you stand in the middle of that pitch and look around, the sheer scale and size of it can be quite overwhelming. “We’ve been here before, we’ve been in some pretty big arenas away from here, it’s just that this one is on our back yard and we get the opportunity to put in a performance and hopefully they invite us back if we do a good job.

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