Sitting in a small marquee just outside the main reception at Celtic Park, James Lowe is fit to burst.
The smiling Lowe has his PRO14 winner's medal draped around his shoulders and is holding court on the privilege it's been to win in the iconic football ground.
"Cool man, holy," he exclaimed.
"Obviously New Zealand sucks at football so I didn’t know too much until I got here, I’m a huge Man City fan now though.
"But it’s cool to be steeped in such heritage and walk down those tunnels and see names, and to walk out there its like a cauldron.
And Leinster won, which is something they couldn't do at another iconic football ground only a couple of Saturdays earlier, when Saracens powered their way to the Champions Cup crown in Newcastle.
And Lowe revealed that Leinster's devastated players met with a sports psychologist in the aftermath of their Champions Cup final loss.
"Mate, it was like someone blooming passed away," explained the winger. "It was devastation.
"You work so hard, you get to the last hurdle and we didn’t quite get over it. It still hurts, thinking about it.
"It was a mourning process, but we had people come in and talk to us and we opened up as a group, talked about what was needed and it was about putting those word into actions.
"A fellah came in and just talked to us. It was more about just us, more than anything. We were all, ‘what if'. We managed to just talk things through as a team.
"A lot of very high profile players probably took it on themselves, the reason why we lost, but obviously it comes down to a few moments when we came up short.
"We learned from it though, that’s the big thing.
"Three weeks ago we were probably stuck in fourth gear. Credit to Saracens for keeping us in that gear.
"They applied a lot of pressure and we learned a lot, we talked a lot and we didn’t leave it as just words.
"You have to make sure that you back it up with actions, and I felt we did".
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