O’Brien back on delivery duty

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.

Sean Sr missed out on his son’s wrecking-ball performance against Ulster in Saturday’s Heineken Cup final to watch over the family livestock. But despite a quiet day in the calving pen on Saturday, there were signs of movement yesterday.

“It was worth waiting for all right. We didn’t have one born yesterday [Saturday] but there is one going today,” Sean Sr said yesterday.