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Magners League (Free subscription) | yesterday
Irish coach Declan Kidney has confirmed that O'Driscoll will wear the captain's arm band for the 57th time when his side take on the Grand Slam chasing Wallabies at Croke Park on Sunday. The Aussies kicked off their Grand Slam tour with a victory over England at Twickenham Stadium last weekend and will be hoping to stay on track when they meet O'Driscoll and co in Dublin. Explaining his reasons...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The 20-year-old lock has been one of the sensations of the new season and gave an outstanding performance against the Irish second-row pairing of Donncha O'Callaghan and Lions captain Paul O'Connell in Northampton's 31-27 victory over Munster in the Heineken Cup in October.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... commending others in the Irish squad for their leadership skills."Paul O'Connell has captained the Lions and captained Munster quite well, Donncha O'Callaghan has captained the Lions and Ronan O'Gara has captained the Lions. Ronan has captained with Munster and Ireland also," he said. "Brian brings a lot of experience to it, like the other lads would do, he is motoring well...