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04th Feb 2016

AUDIO: Brian O’Driscoll recalls sticking up for ROG and hammering Austin Healey on 2001 Lions Tour

Conor Heneghan

BOD and Keith Wood recalled a great story on Newstalk’s Off the Ball Roadshow in Limerick last night.

The two Irish rugby legends were in Limerick for a pre-Six Nations roadshow last night and a question from the audience prompted them to tell a magnificent story about the Lions Tour to Australia in 2001.

As you’ll probably recall, poor Ronan O’Gara took a disgraceful thumping from Duncan McRae in a clash against NSW Waratahs, a thumping that left O’Gara’s face in an awful state afterwards.

Clip via RugbyFightsReturn

Like O’Gara, Brian O’Driscoll was only a young pup on the 2001 tour, but his youth didn’t stop him from sticking up for his mate when Austin Healey starting acting the maggot towards his Ireland team-mate in the dressing room afterwards.

We’ll let Keith Wood and O’Driscoll take up the story.

How it took this long for such a great tale to emerge we have no idea, but it was well worth the wait.

Audio via Newstalk