O’Driscoll: we must learn from our misakes

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL reckons that the Irish rugby team can temper the disappointment of their Six Nations campaign by raising performance levels in the forthcoming World Cup.

Describing the Six Nations Championship as the most competitive rugby tournament — apart from the World Cup itself — the Irish captain is convinced it is a more difficult tournament to win than the southern hemisphere’s Tri-Nations and he says that Ireland will have to learn from their mistakes if they are to benefit from them.

“Our whole season was really defined by a few seconds at the end of the French game,” he says. “We can talk about what happened in the last game, about what happened in Rome and Paris, but really, we lost the title in Dublin.”