Tributes to Paul O'Connell flood social media sites

At one point yesterday, it was probably harder to find messages on social media platforms that were not about Paul O’Connell, as tributes flooded in for the Ireland rugby captain who has now played his last game for his country.

He bows out in cruel circumstances, sustaining a serious injury in Sunday’s pool game with France, which now rules him out of the rest of the tournament.

It was another former Munster man, Irish Examiner columnist Ronan O’Gara, who led the way with a tweet which set the tone.