O’Gara speaks out over slurs on personal life

RONAN O’GARA attempted his toughest conversion of the Rugby World Cup yet at the weekend — trying to convince the world’s media that rumours about his personal life were untrue.

The off-form out-halffinally grabbed the topic with both hands and ran with it after several days of trying to achieve the physiological impossibility of simultaneously keeping his chin up and head down.

O’Gara, who got Ireland’s only score in the team’s dismal performance against France in last Friday’s crunch match, evidently felt there was nothing left to lose by tackling the subject head-on.