Peter Jackson: Ronan O’Gara to return to scene of the failure that made him

Not even Ross Byrne’s late converted try could save Leinster from their worst semi-final defeat since Munster, and O’Gara, outplayed them in 2006

La Rochelle’s Will Skelton celebrates with Dany Priso after scoring a try against Leinster. Picture: Dave Winter/Inpho

Ronan O’Gara has never forgotten his first European Cup final at Twickenham for all the wrong reasons — how Munster, the odds-on favourites, found a way of losing to a Northampton team ravaged by injury.

Typically, he confronted the sequence of ‘cock-ups’ surrounding the occasion, then delivered a withering verdict: “We failed. I failed. I had a chance to be a hero and I blew it.”