A brilliant trip down memory lane.
Paul O’Connell may well line out for the final time at Thomond Park tomorrow, as they take on the Ospreys in the semi-final of the Guinness Pro 12.
Ahead of tomorrow’s game, he’s been speaking to his former teammate Marcus Horan for TG4, looking back on his career with the province, and it’ll warm the hearts of any Munster fan.
Horan and O’Connell reminisce about their first on-pitch encounter, pucking the heads off either each other, or some other poor soul (it’s hard to decipher) at the bottom of a ruck in a college game.
O’Connell also reveals his two favourite games as a Munster man, the 35-14 hammering of Gloucester in 2004 (he didn’t feature the year before in “The Miracle Match”), and the bonus point victory over Sale in 2006, when he and Donncha O’Callaghan hit Sebastien Chabal so hard he almost ended up in Ballynanty.
O’Connell says he has no regrets from his career, but if there was something he could change, it would be his date of birth. He doesn’t want to be younger to prolong his career, but rather he wishes he was a few years older, so he could heave been involved during the AIL’s heyday.
Munster fans, get the Kleenex at the ready. You may get a bit teary.
