O’Driscoll ‘as hungry as ever’

BRIAN O’Driscoll smiled when asked if his appetite for the Six Nations remained as keen as ever on the eve of his tenth campaign?

It wasn’t that he was dismissive of the query — he seemed glad to be asked.

“As keen and as hungry as ever for it,” he asserted. “Maybe it’s the realisation that it won’t go on for ever that gives you the extra appetite. I’m enjoying being in camp and thoroughly enjoying the buzz I’m going to feel being in town and seeing your team-mates.