This is my final year, reiterates O’Driscoll

Brian O’Driscoll is adamant he won’t stay on to the 2015 World Cup.

The iconic Irish centre yesterday admitted his decision to play for just one more season in top flight rugby had been taken for family reasons and because of the huge bodily punishment he has endured over 15 or more years.

“This is the ‘one more year’,” he told Pat Kenny on Newstalk yesterday: “I had to think long and hard about playing this season and there were a number of factors. I had to talk to Amy and listen to my body, I had to learn if I was still wanted in the Leinster setup and the Irish setup,” he said.