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17th September 2018
03:25pm BST

The Wexford tight-head, making his first appearance of the season, did a lot of damage in his 27 minutes on The RDS pitch.
After the 52-10 blow-out of the Welsh region, there was a lot of understandable praise for Van der Flier, Gibson-Park, Larmour and Johnny Sexton. We almost take Furlong's instant impact for granted and the game was said and done by the time he entered the fray.
Still, behold one hell of a try.
It all starts, 62 minutes in, when Larmour checks back inside after taking a pass from Rob Kearney. Momentum is lost and Gibson Park shuttles the ball left and left again until Furlong quite literally raises his hand - Mine!
Whatever momentum Furlong had was lost, though, as Gibson-Park faked left before jinking inside Ross Moriarty and popping up an offload.
Furlong took one forward stride before he pouched the pass and had to generate all the steam from that. He also had to take the pass up high, over his head, and with Ollie Griffiths haring over and ready to put him down.
What happened over the next five metres, and four seconds, is what makes Furlong one of the most dangerous forwards in world rugby.
Griffiths - all 105 kilos and 6-foot-1 of him - had Furlong lined up and he gave it his all with a tackle to the midriff. The forward simply bounced off Furlong and slumped to the ground.
Next up was centre Adam Warren. Furlong went through him like he wasn't there.
Brok Harris ended up making 20 tackles in the game (a crazy number for a loosehead) but he could not stop Furlong from a yard out.
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Three lads threw their best at the Ireland international but all failed to prevent his try.
The final nail in a coffin-ful of nails was applied by Scott Fardy with minutes to spare. Leinster racking up half-centuries again, and they're only warming up.
Check out the match highlights here:
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