Leaders Leicester bounced back from losing their unbeaten Zurich Premiership record last week to overpower London Irish.

Tigers were dominant from the opening whistle and their overwhelming domination of possession should have yielded victory by a wider margin.

But they had to settle for tries from Neil Back, Pat Howard, Winston Stanley and Alistair Newmarch which secured an extra bonus point for the defending champions.

Tigers welcomed back fly-half Andy Goode from the torn tendon injury which had ruled him out from the opening day of the season and he made a big impression along with Canadian international winger Stanley.

The hosts did find themselves behind after 11 minutes when Jarrod Cunningham's speculative long kick deceived Newmarch and Paul Sackey was able to nip in for a try to put the visitors 10-3 ahead after Cunningham's conversion.

The Tigers' response was immediate as Back was driven over for a try on 14 minutes - and six minutes later they were back in front.

Back made the initial break and after a third ruck the ball came to Howard, who shimmied over from five metres out to put his side 15-10 ahead.

Conor O'Shea reduced the deficit to two points for Irish but Tim Stimpson re-established a five-point lead for Tigers with a penalty on 28 minutes.

He then added another after 35 minutes to put Leicester in charge at 21-13 at the interval.

Irish did threaten in the early stages of a scrappy second half but the contest was effectively ended by two Tiger tries in a six-minute spell.

On 57 minutes Martin Johnson leapt to take a line-out and after a couple of drives had failed to breach the Irish defence the ball was switched to Stanley and he burst between two defenders to score.

Stimpson added a conversion to make it 28-13 and when Stanley set up Newmarch for a try on 63 minutes it put Tigers 33-13 ahead and settled matters.

Eddy Halvey did cross for Irish deep into injury time but it was a mere consolation for the out-gunned visitors.