All-action O’Gara may be kept in reserve

Eoghan O’Gara dismissed the suggestion that he may be struggling with a toe injury, but the sight of him at a press conference yesterday was enough to suspect he may not make the first XV for this Sunday’s Allianz Division 1 decider.

Such has been the way of things this year, with those Dublin players served up to the media invariably being those carrying knocks of one kind or another. And then there is O’Gara’s all-action style.

The Templeogue Synge Street forward seems purpose-built for an impact off the bench, providing a migraine-in-waiting for defenders already frazzled by 40 or 50 minutes of work.