O’Gara slowly getting down to business

Life in Paris, and his new career with Racing Metro 92, became that bit more real this week for Ronan O’Gara, who spent two days in the French capital where he met with the club’s new coaches, Laurent Travers and Laurent Labit.

It was the former Munster and Irish out-half’s first visit to his new base of operations since signing a deal with club owner Jacky Lorenzetti, in London, to work as a coach for an outfit which has also captured Jonathan Sexton from Leinster.

For O’Gara, speaking in Dublin at the launch of the 1% Difference campaign to encourage a culture of philanthropy, it was the first real opportunity to road test his French which, despite reports to the contrary, he insists is far from fluent.