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The Leinster camp will be a tough place to be this week, “the sense of missed chances gone a-begging will be acute,” writes Gerry Thornley in the aftermath of their Champions Cup final defeat. In many ways, he reckons, “this wasn’t the worst of Leinster’s three successive final defeats”, but. They’ll also be left to “ruefully reflect on the calls or moments that went against them”, Owen Doyle analysing some of those decisions in his Whistleblower column.
if he’s offered it on a permanent basis. “They have left him out to dry. He is just hanging around - ‘am I getting it, am I not?’”, the Cavan striker almost as excited about those challenges as she is about her cow Rosie becoming a mother in July.– there’s the Oaks at Epsom on Friday, the Derby the following day and its French equivalent 24 hours later at Chantilly.
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