O'Driscoll: Consistency of performance separates Andy Farrell's Ireland

'Has any Irish team matched up to the consistency of performance over the last years, game in, game out? I would probably say no,' Brian O'Driscoll said.

'GRAND SLAM WOULD BE AN ENORMOUS ACHIEVEMENT': Brian O’Driscoll is pictured at the iconic Guinness Gates, which have been transformed into Guinness 0.0 Gates to celebrate the launch of the brand’s biggest responsible drinking campaign, encouraging people to ‘Make it a St. Patrick’s Day to Remember’. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Logic dictates that we can’t ask Brian O’Driscoll to compare Andy Farrell’s current Ireland team with the collection of men that claimed the country’s first ever Grand Slam back in the black-and-white days of the late 1940s.

The game that Jack Kyle played bears next to no resemblance to the brand of rugby today’s generation is able to produce, but then O’Driscoll makes a similar observation about Ireland’s two more recent clean sweeps.