Rory Best has been struggling and, no, we don’t mean the line out.

Rory Best is confident Ireland’s younger generation of rugby stars will have no difficulty coping with life without Brian O’Driscoll who has all but admitted the 2013 Six Nations will be the last campaign in which he wears the green jersey.

They may have a bit more grey hair than when they took to the field against arguably one of the world's greatest footballing sides, but some familiar and legendary faces gathered in Dublin this afternoon to commemorate an All Ireland sporting achievement 35 years ago.