I have nothing to prove, insists focused O’Gara

FINALLY he’s a marquee name, Ronan O’Gara, respected now wherever rugby is played as one of the world’s best out-halves.

Has it affected him?

No, is the short answer. He’s still as open, still as frank, still as honest as he was ten years ago. Sometimes that honesty is misinterpreted, taken as arrogance, as it was when his comments about the English Premiership being over-hyped hit the streets just before Munster played Leicester in the Heineken Cup in Welford Road late last year.