The French Sunday dailies salute the triumph of the people of La Rochelle. As for the Irish press, it is "desolation"....
A full-front page photo of Captain Alldritt and the iconic Sazy lifting the trophy, crossed out with a "Giants!" Sud-Ouest has no too strong qualifiers to evoke the heroic triumph. "A defeat that will hurt Leinster for a long time," predicts The Independent. "La Rochelle has broken their hearts again"