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Former Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll has taken a fresh dig at fellow pundit Austin Healey in reference to a famous incident between the two during the 2001 Lions tour.

O’Driscoll and Healey got into a bit of an altercation after the latter decided to poke fun at Ronan O’Gara, after he was viciously assaulted by Duncan McRae during their tour of Australia.

O’Driscoll stood up for his Ireland teammate and called out Healey for a boxing match that didn’t end well for the Englishman, with Keith Wood brilliantly recalling the story some years back.

“I have to say it is one of my favourite Lions memories. You look at him now and he’s got a little soft face on him. It was after Duncan McCrae beat the crap out of ROG. It was lunacy, he just absolutely lost it,” Keith Wood told Off The Ball on Newstalk.

“Austin came in and he was being an unbelievable pain in the a**e. I mean beyond all belief. He was touching ROG’s face and saying ‘c’mom Rog, let’s have a little boxing match.,, c’mon c’mon’.

“ROG just said ‘p**s off, just leave me alone, get away from me’ and then suddenly this little voice peeps in… ‘I’ll have a bit of that,’ says Drico and they put on a pair of boxing gloves and Drico beat the living crap out of him.”

Healey was watching the Olympic boxing last week and passed some comments and O’Driscoll couldn’t resist bringing the incident back up once again…