By NICK CAIN

Consolation: Tadhg Beirne breaks clear to score for the Scarlets

LEINSTER made such mincemeat of the Scarlets in this five tries to one rout that by the end of it they were already being hailed as European champions elect when the final is played in Bilbao three weeks from now.
Sure, this was a virtual home game for Leinster with Dublin inexplicably selected as a neutral semifinal venue, but whether this had been at the Aviva Stadium – where Leinster had won their previous seven outings – or in West Wales, the Irish province were so superior that there would not ...