By Brendan Gallagher Thomas Edison has much to answer for. Edison was wrong, wrong, wrong.
Genius is nothing of the sort.
He wears the mantle lightly for a boy-man of just 22 and the final flourishing of his extraordinary talent is years away but watching him train in the sunshine at Greystones this week you'd have to be terminally disenchanted with rugby not to feel your spirits soar. Of course, like maestros in any profession, he works hard to perfect his skills. But no amount of perspiration could replicate a Brian O'Driscoll. His rugby talent cannot be manufactured, it is God-given. Nearly a year ago, against France, O'Driscoll became an Irish hero overnight after scoring a hat-trick in their first win in Paris for 28 years.