O’Driscoll: Leinster Reds drove me batty

Brian O’Driscoll says he could never understand or accept why people from Leinster would support Munster in the early years of the Heineken Cup.

“The movement of people from Leinster and going down to Thomond Park and supporting them, even though they were born and bred in Leinster, I couldn’t get my head around that, just because it was a successful team. That grated with me, for sure,” he told The Ray D’Arcy Show on Today FM.

It all came home to him at the 2006 Heineken Cup semi-final at Lansdowne Road, when Munster hammered them 30-6 roared on by three-quarters of the crowd, and O’Driscoll was determined that would not happen again.