Jamie Heaslip was on the scoresheet again for Leinster on Friday night as the leaders recorded a 13-6 win over Edinburgh at Donnybrook.

Despite trailing to an early Duncan Hodge penalty Leinster scored their 18th straight home win thanks to Heaslip’s try and eight points from the boot of Felipe Contepomi.

Contepomi had kicked two penalties in response to Hodge’s opening score before the Leinster skipper created the space for Heaslip to dive over on the right hand side with the Argentinean’s conversion making it 13-3. Despite creating a few chances before the break Leinster were unable to increase their lead with Edinburgh’s superb defence, even when reduced to 14 by the sin binning of Ally Hogg, kept the home side in check.

They built on that defence in the closing stages to look for a losing bonus point and were rewarded when Hodge scored a second penalty late on which gave them the bonus point