After delivering a man of the match performance in the European Cup final, Leinster’s Sean O’Brien turned his attention to deliveries of another kind — a trip home to the family farm in Ardristan, just outside Tullow, Co Carlow, to help his father with one of the family’s calving cows.

Leinster’s Sean O’Brien has been compared to a bull before, but he’ll have calving on his mind after today’s Heineken Cup final in Twickenham.

He has taken Irish, European and world rugby by storm but Sean O’Brien won’t be forgetting his background any time soon. Terry Reilly paints a revealing portrait of the Leinster leader

Gardaí have named the two people who died in yesterday's fatal road accident in Co Carlow.