End of an era talk wide of the mark, says departing O’Driscoll

Mick O’Driscoll may have called time on his own playing career but as Munster prepare for a summer of upheaval, the outgoing lock believes his province has not reached the end of an era.

O’Driscoll’s Munster career ended on a bitterly disappointing note in Swansea on Friday night as a rampant Ospreys inflicted a 45-10 drubbing on their Irish visitors to reach the RaboDirect Pro12 final later this month against Leinster.

The five-try to one defeat also brought the curtain down on Tony McGahan’s four-year tenure as director of coaching, while the former Ireland second row will be one of at least nine players leaving Munster, among them fellow retirees Jerry Flannery and David Wallace.