By PETER JACKSON at the Aviva Stadium

Body blow: Leinster’s James Lowe scores just before half-time

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LEINSTER stripped the Scarlets of their treasured PRO14 title last night, thereby removing the last vestige of opposition to their European rule.
Defiant to the very end despite their dislocated condition when lesser teams would have given up the ghost on a punishing night, the men from ‘Heart and Soul Rugby Country’ had no answer to Ireland’s supreme province and their imperious ringmaster.
Johnny Sexton gave one of the great fly-half perfor...