IRFU tie up O’Driscoll for two more years

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL will become the highest paid player in the history of Irish rugby after rejecting overtures from French and English clubs to agree a new two-year contract with the IRFU and Leinster.

The deal was confirmed yesterday evening by his father and agent, Frank, who held five intensive meetings with the powers at Lansdowne Road over the past few months.

Reports of a completed deal had been doing the circuits early yesterday afternoon, but according to O’Driscoll Snr, a final agreement satisfying both parties was only reached about tea-time.