Ireland ready to step it up again

IT IS a question Brian O’Driscoll will have to get used to fielding over the next two months; ‘just how do Ireland improve on 2009?’

It was, by any standards, an astonishing run for the Leinster man. Grand Slam winners for the first time since 1948, unbeaten through the whole calendar year, and, to top it off, O’Driscoll’s Leinster were finally crowned Heineken Cup champions.

Ireland’s captain is relaxed about the prospect of repeating those successes.