PICS: Paulie ahead of last home game: 'Seems to be a lot of final everythings for me lately!'

"To play in the Aviva and in Lansdowne Road as many times as I have, and had as many great days as I have, has been brilliant.”

Ireland captain Paul O’Connell wants it to be a case of business as usual when he makes his Dublin farewell as a Test match player on Saturday.

O’Connell will bow out of Test rugby after the forthcoming World Cup campaign in England and Wales following a stellar international career that has so far harvested 102 Ireland caps, while he also went on three British and Irish Lions tours.