O’Driscoll looks back on missed opportunity

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL may be out of the game for the foreseeable future with injury but it is the “missed opportunity” that was the Rugby World Cup rather than any missed game time which will go down as his greatest regret of 2011.

Expectations were high inside the camp, and here at home, that Declan Kidney’s side could go further than any Irish outfit before them, and reach a World Cup semi-final at the least, after the pool defeat of Australia only for Wales to bring the party to a premature end.

“I kind of look back on just a massive missed opportunity,” O’Driscoll told Newstalk’s Tom Dunne yesterday.