Heaslip: World Cup unfinished business

The latest rugby season may still be in its infancy but thoughts turn temporarily to the 2015 World Cup for now, given it all gets underway this very day next year, when England face Fiji at Twickenham in the tournament’s opening gambit.

Ireland’s tournament begins a day later when they face Canada in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, and there will likely be a solid number of men in green eager to atone for an exit of crushing proportions last time out.

Jamie Heaslip among them. The Leinster captain spoke yesterday of his three-year old World Cup ‘hangover’ and about the Ireland team’s intention to right the wrongs of 2011 when the latest edition swings around next September.