KIERAN SHANNON: World awaits as ‘mega’ clubs meet again

There are big games, very big games and then there are mega games.

Ireland-England on Sunday may turn out to be effectively the Six Nations championship decider, but it was only mega in the eyes of those six nations.

A few hours later, America and millions of others speckled around the world would have tuned in to see the Miami Heat play the stuttering Los Angeles Lakers, bringing two of the world’s biggest talents, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant head-to-head, dwarfing the audience that would have followed events from the Aviva and placing Brian O’Driscoll’s star in the galaxy of global greatness into perspective.