Worcester Warriors 20 Leicester Tigers 29: There was a nice moment about an hour before kick-off at Sixways Stadium on Saturday when Donncha O’Callaghan and Geordan Murphy found themselves in the same part of the pitch as the sides limbered up for this Premiership clash.

Ireland captain Paul O’Connell marches into his fourth and final World Cup tomorrow in Cardiff. Ahead of the World Cup kick-off against Canada, the second-row legend sat down with rugby correspondent Simon Lewis to share memories of tournaments past — and offer insights into his mindset going into his final tour of duty in green.

Paul O’Connell believes long-time second-row partner Donncha O’Callaghan will give new club Worcester unbelievable value for money following the veteran’s decision to leave Munster.

Donncha O’Callaghan will make a huge impact in the Aviva Premiership this season after his move from his beloved Munster, one of his old team-mates declared last night.

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HEINEKEN CUP POOL SIX:

A decade and a day separated the miracle match and miracle men from those with designs on joining them in Munster’s hall of fame.

MUNSTER veteran Mick O’Driscoll has sent a reminder that it is the province’s older players and not just the younger ones who are fighting for Heineken Cup places.

RONAN O’GARA captured the headlines in Rome with a trademark last-minute drop goal, but Irish flanker David Wallace also paid tribute to the roles played by Leo Cullen and Donncha O’Callaghan.

IN different circumstances, the groin injury that has kept Paul O’Connell out of action for the past month and seriously threatens his participation in next week’s Heineken Cup semi-final against Biarritz might well have been calamitous for Munster’s prospects both in Europe and in the Magners League.

ALAN Quinlan was back in his natural habitat for the past couple of days.

SCOTTISH lock Nathan Hines, currently in South Africa with the British and Irish Lions, is to quit French side Perpignan to join Heineken Cup champions Leinster.

AT KICK-OFF it was rocking, 30,325 mostly red-bedecked fans giving it hell; as the minutes, the seconds, wound exhaustingly down, such was the tension in this absorbing Heineken Cup semi-final that half an hour after the final whistle the Ricoh Arena was still twitching.

THIS morning 30 young Irishmen will wake up in Bordeaux. Like so many millions of Irish people before them they will wake in a foreign place, their hearts full of hope, their ambitions fervently shared by everyone they left behind at home.

At half-time in the Heineken Cup final against Biarritz last May, Munster were 17-10 up. In this extract from Munster Our Road To Glory by Alan English, the men in red give a blow by blow account of the second half.