Leinster 55 Glasgow Warriors 19: Leinster star Dan Leavy suffers horrific eye gash in runaway Champions Cup win

DAN LEAVY replaced Jack Conan after 55 minutes of Leinster's impressive Champions Cup win over Glasgow Warriors.

And before long he found himself in an X-rated situation that left the Irish flanker with a horrific eye injury.

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The exact cause of Leavy's inury remains unclear - successive reports on the game failed to even mention it.

Photographs taken before the game shows Leavy was carrying a cut in the same region around his right eye.

But things obviously went from bad to worse after his introduction to this game.

l was looking even more battered and bruised.

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But at least Leavy could see the funny side...

He showed no signs on grief or bad feeling towards an opponent when photographed again during the second half of Sunday's showdown.

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Other than Leavy re-opening his cut it was a great day for Leinster.

They secured top spot in their group and a home quarter-final by running in eight tries against bottom side Glasgow.

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Leinster had the bonus point in the bag before half-time thanks to five scores and added three more after the break.

Isa Nacewa and Scott Fardy both crossed twice for the dominant Irish province .

Nikola Matawalu scored two of Glasgow's three tries but the Scottish side have lost all five of their games while Leinster have won all five of theirs.

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by crossing the whitewash and then Matawalu showed impressive athleticism to touch down near the flag and reduce his side's arrears to 31 points.

Fardy rumbled over again with three minutes remaining, replacement Ross Byrne kicking his third conversion, to add to the three two-pointers and penalty Sexton landed before being substituted.

Peter Horne and Brandon Thomson added the extras to two of Glasgow's tries and Dave Rennie's charges will conclude their hugely disappointing campaign at home to Exeter Chiefs next Saturday.