O’Connell named Six Nations’ best player

Another week, another trophy lifting exercise for Paul O’Connell who was yesterday awarded the RBS Player of the Six Nations Championship.

The Championship winning skippered secured over 26% of the public vote which equated to the backing of 18,842 fans.

Wales’ Alun Wyn Jones was second with 19% of the vote while the race for third was a hotly contested affair with just 0.9% of the votes separating Ireland’s rising star Robbie Henshaw (3rd with 7750 votes) and Wales’s Dan Biggar (4th with 7681 votes).