Healy reveals his awe for O’Driscoll

You want to know what Brian O’Driscoll means to people? Cian Healy came close to waxing lyrical about him yesterday. The same Cian Healy who doesn’t normally wax lyrical about nobody or nothing.

Not to the media, anyway.

There’s a danger of a fatigue factor here. Last year we had the ‘will-he-won’t-he’ retire saga and the long goodbye has cranked into gear this last two weeks with the news vacuum in the Six Nations schedule since the England game in Twickenham.