Ronan O'Gara

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Jonathan Sexton leaves the field after scoring a 42-metre drop goal against France. He is crucial to Ireland’s success in the Six Nations. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images
Gerry Thornley: Sexton is as important to Ireland as O’Driscoll was

Johnny Sexton’s importance to the Irish team has never been more acute, and never been more ably demonstrated than in Paris last Saturday. In part due(...)

Ronan O’Gara and Dan Carter at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow for the SoftCo Foundation Gala Dinner Launch. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Lions’ displays doing little to convince Carter or O’Gara

Dan Carter and Ronan O’Gara can fill a room. They walk in and inflate in size, seize the space. Today they are talking Lions and All Blacks and in a r(...)

Ireland’s Paul O’Connell hands off Luke Charteris as he makes a line break in the first half agaisnt Wales. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
Paul O’Connell: Ireland’s captain beaten but unbowed

An Irish winning streak broken, a Grand Slam halted, the Championship wide open and Paul O’Connell’s 100th cap soured by just a third Welsh win over I(...)