O’Brien: We did no wrong

SEÁN O’BRIEN has dismissed an allegation that the behaviour of Irish players at a Queenstown Bar in New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup was “much worse” than that of their English counterparts.

That claim was made by an unnamed member of Martin Johnson’s squad and revealed this week in the controversial ‘Twickileaks’ documents which were part of the confidential reviews of England’s performance at the tournament.

Among a litany of lowlights for the 2003 world champions was Mike Tindall’s infamous night out in Queenstown. The IRFU are known to be seething at the fact that they have been made a subplot to the controversy but O’Brien was less perturbed yesterday.