O’Driscoll relieved at finishing in one piece

Brian O’Driscoll last night described his "relief" at avoiding serious injury in his last game as a professional rugby as he began life after retirement with his first stint on air as part of Newstalk’s ‘Off the Ball’ team.

The ex-Leinster and Ireland player had announced earlier yesterday that he would be joining the station’s sports programme come September when the rugby season starts back again, just days after his farewell appearance.

It was, unfortunately, one reduced to less than nine minutes after he aggravated a long-standing calf injury early on in Leinster’s ultimately comfortable defeat of Glasgow Warriors in the RaboDirect PRO12 final at the RDS.