Leinster have continued their perfect start to the season with a 23-10 win over Glasgow Warriors at the Scotstoun Stadium last night.

Two tries from Cian Kelleher, along with a further 13-points from the boot of in-form Ross Byrne helped the Irish province past an early onslaught from the home side, who scored two tries through Ruaridh Jackson. 

Things couldn’t have started much better for the Scots as Leinster full-back Hugo Keenan was sent to the sin-bin for impeding Huw Jones during a try-scoring situation four minutes into the game. 

A man up and Glasgow made no mistake of punishing the boys in blue as they struck from the resulting penalty. A swift move from a line-out allowing Peter Horne to swing the ball out to Jackson, who dotted down in the corner. Horne couldn’t provide the extras, but it was a positive opening six minutes for the hosts. 

Minutes later and Horne had the chance to add three-points to the scoreboard, but was again missing his kicking radar with the penalty. 

That was not the case however for Byrne, who stepped up just before the quarter-hour mark to get Leinster up and running with a penalty kick. 

The game became filled with errors following that score, but it was Glasgow who extended their lead as Sam Johnson broke through the defence put Jackson through on the left-hand side for his second of the night. Horne failed from the tee once more to leave it at 10-3 after 25 minutes. 

Horne’s inaccuracy proved costly to the home side as Leinster came roaring back, showing some great attacking play as youngster Conor O’Brien made a break of his own before sending a lovely pass to Kelleher who went over for the try. Byrne slotted the conversion to make it an even game just after the half hour mark. 

Three minutes later and Leinster went in front as some more good attacking play allowed Kelleher to notch his team’s and his own second try of the game, which Byrne again converted to leave it at 17-10 come the interval. 

After the break Leinster never looked like giving up their lead and pushed further in front just before the clock struck 60 minutes as Byrne knocked over a penalty. 

The pressure that Leinster were putting on the Warriors forced errors from the hosts and with little under 10 minutes remaining Byrne all but ensured the win with another perfect penalty. 

Glasgow rallied on to the end and thought they had got over through Jackson once more only for the TMO to rule out the try and his hat-trick. They continued to push for a score that would at least hand them a losing bonus-point, but the away side held strong to record a 23-10 win, which is their first away to the Warriors in seven years. 

The victory makes it seven wins from seven in the PRO14 for Leinster at the start of the season and leaves them eight points clear of Ulster, who are in second-place in Conference A. While Glasgow fall further behind the play-off spots and are now six-points off third-placed Cheetahs in the conference. 

Next up for the Scottish side is a double-header in the Champions Cup against La Rochelle, with the away fixture next Saturday. While Leinster will look to make it three wins from three on the European stage when they head to Northampton on the same day.