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Mon 09 Sep 2007Leinster offer something to cheerCeltic League/Leinster 23 Edinburgh 8:Almost 10,000 rugby followers descended upon the newly renovated RDS Showgrounds on Saturday evening in desperate need of a pick-me-up. Fortunately for them, the Dr Jekyll version of Leinster turned up.Three impressive individual tries, all from players that represent this team's future, turned a far-from-flawless performance into a comfortable victory that allowed many of the crowd to head early for neighbouring hostelries - still plenty of sorrows to be drowned, remember.