'Nuts and bolts are scrum, maul, tackle - the fun stuff'

As the players walked around the RDS on a beautiful May day in 2013, enjoying the sunshine and the satisfaction of a fourth European trophy in five years, Jack McGrath looked less like Cian Healy's understudy and more like a viable alternative. That game rounded off a season in which he had started eight of 18 games, including that taste of Europe when he featured in Leinster's three Amlin matches, concluding with the win over Stade Francais.