The Irish side booked a semi final place with ease and will now play either Saracens or Clermont Auvergne. Leinster will head to Twickenham or Bordeaux on April 29, depending on the winners of tomorrow’s Vicarage Road tie, after brushing aside the Blues with ease.
Leinster were in unstoppable mood, particularly in the first half where they constantly cut the Blues defence to shreds with ruthless efficiency.
Ica Nacewa, Rob Kearney and Brian O’Driscoll scored first-half tries to end the contest after 40 minutes. Leigh Halfpenny’s early penalty was scant consolation from a side who were simply outclassed.
Fly-half Jonathan Sexton kicked 14 points for the home side via four conversions and two penalties en route to a fourth successive Heineken semi-final appearance.
Nacewa dived over in the 14th minute after Kearney sent him clear. Sexton put Leinster further ahead with his deadly boot as the Blues struggled to get a toe hold in the match.
Things got worse for the Blues whenKearney sprinted over unopposed. Sexton added the extras but Leinster were in no mood to switch off and they added a third try before the break when an exquisite inside ball from Sexton found wing Luke Fitzgerald, and he sent the supporting O’Driscoll over.
Sexton’s conversion gave Leinster a 27-3 lead at the break, leaving the Blues facing humiliation. Kearney scored his second try early after the re-start. The closest the Blues got to stemming the tide was when veteran flanker Martyn Williams claimed a try but the TMO denied him because he dropped the ball.
It summed up the Blues day as they were dumped out of the Heineken Cup quarter-finals without hardly firing a shot.
