Paul O'Connell smiled through injury agony after Ireland reached quarter-finals

Unable to walk, with searing pain shooting up his leg, Paul O’Connell was “beaming from ear to ear” – even though his World Cup and Test career were shot to pieces.

Never again would O’Connell don his nation’s green, not against Argentina in the quarter-finals one week later, nor even to lead Ireland in a potential World Cup last-four debut.