O'Kelly heads for home

Malcolm O’Kelly’s Lions dream is over after he suffered a groin injury which has ruled him out of the 2005 tour of New Zealand.

Malcolm O’Kelly’s Lions dream is over after he suffered a groin injury which has ruled him out of the 2005 tour of New Zealand.

The Irish lock, 30, sustained a recurrence of an old groin injury in training earlier this week which proved to be more serious than the Lions medical team first thought.

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