Captain hails half-back combination of O’Gara and O’Leary

IRELAND captain Brian O’Driscoll lavished praise on his half-back combination of Ronan O’Gara and Tomás O’Leary after yesterday’s 20-20 draw with Australia at Croke Park.

O’Driscoll was again the Irish hero with a last minute try, his 37th for his country, and after claiming it was the result of “some smart play” proceeded to underline the importance of O’Leary’s role.

“It was great vision by Tomás to pick out the right pass,” he stressed. “He had a lot of options but he picked the right one, not only for that one but for Tommy’s (Bowe) try as well. He could have picked a number of different people but they were two great pieces of vision from him and that was the difference.”