‘Better in the flesh’: Donncha takes picture in hand

When Munster’s Donncha O’Callaghan saw the dejected picture of himself on the front page of yesterday’s Irish Examiner following his team’s Heineken Cup semi-final loss to Toulon he thought one thing — I’ve ugly hands.

“Things like that you don’t even take notice of at the time, you’re just going through the hurt of a loss,” he said of the picture.

“It just shows the expression of what it meant and the disappointment of it and it also shows how horrible my hands look.