O’Gara primed for ‘new season’

IT’S BEEN a soggy Spring for Munster outhalf Ronan O’Gara.

The Autumn internationals and Munster's heroic victory over Gloucester in the Heineken Cup teed up the Cork Con ace for a Six Nations campaign but Neath flanker Brett Sinkinson put paid to all that.

"Mentally it's been tough. Obviously you can do nothing about the injury, but once you're back, you can only control the controllable, and picking the team is something I can't control. The disappointment of not starting for Ireland is there, it was always gnawing in my head that I would feature at some stage. I still had to prepare most thoroughly mentally, but the fact I only featured for about 15 minutes against Wales it's hard on all the subs really.