We are all drunk with O’Driscoll hysteria

IT was a week of two icons, the treatment of one eliciting national sound and fury, the other’s plight little more than a footnote.

What of ‘BOD’? Once upon a time, Brian O’Driscoll was a rugby player; not a good rugby player, but a great one.

Then, last week, his status was raised to national martyr. He had been subjected to a great injustice, at the hands of a foreign body.