Leinster head coach Leo Cullen says he's confident his side can recover from Saturday's disappointment, as attention now turns to this weekend's Heineken Champions Cup final against La Rochelle (live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player).
The province saw their hopes of a URC and European double quashed by Munster at the Aviva Stadium, going down 16-15 to their rivals in the semi-final of the BKT United Rugby Championship.
Leinster will have the chance to right those wrongs this Saturday in their final game of the season, when they take on La Rochelle in the decider of the Champions Cup at the Aviva.
And speaking in the aftermath of their loss to Munster, Cullen said they were already turning the page and preparing for their rematch with Ronan O'Gara's side.
"There's a good conversation going on in the dressing-room there among the group. Everyone is excited to get going," he said.
"Bitterly disappointing to lose this but we have a big final to look forward to now and we have to give everything we have to it. These are special weeks. You enjoy the process of preparing together.
"You would love another couple of weeks together but it is only one week now."
With the knockout stages of the Champions Cup extended to 16 teams, and the URC having an eight-team play-off, Leinster have played five knockout game in the last seven weeks in their bid to win both titles.
And while Cullen has heavily rotated his squad across the last two months to deal with the heavy schedule, he didn't agree with the suggestion that the play-offs for either competition were too long.
"It makes it a challenge but we didn't think it was going to be an impossible challenge and that’s why we wanted to take it on. Now we’ve got one game to look forward to.
"We were wondering would we have two finals to look forward to coming into this game, we don’t, we have one. There’s no point in us dwelling on anything now.
"Credit to Munster, they fought 'til the very end and Jack Crowley knocks over a drop goal to win the game.
"Fair play to them, in terms of how they evolve their game all the time. From where they were earlier in the season, they've got to a final now - back to South Africa. We wish them well in the final.
"For us now there is one focus. Will that help us now? Yeah, maybe it will help us now.
"It’s an unbelievably exciting challenge. La Rochelle have been the form team in Europe so it doesn’t get much bigger, does it?," he added.
In good news for the province, Robbie Henshaw (above) appeared to be in strong form on his return from a quad injury, while James Lowe was a full participant in the warm-up on the Aviva Stadium, and looks on track to return from a calf injury for Saturday's Champions Cup final.
Jimmy O'Brien was withdrawn at half-time in Saturday's defeat, with Cullen saying it was a "precautionary" replacement after the full-back suffered a knock.
The Leinster coach says he has a rough idea of how his squad will look for the Champions Cup final, but says it's not yet set in stone.
"Definitely, it's not like we had 15 or 23 players left behind. Guys were scrapping it out on lots of different fronts in this game, so we'll have a good look back and have our selection discussion as we normally would and make the calls. Hopefully they're the right calls for the group.
"Selection is a big piece, isn't it?
"Over the course of the season, it's got us to this stage and nearly got us over the line today. Just not quite good enough, unfortunately."
