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Published 11:55 7 Feb 2016 GMT
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"Johnny would give out to me for saying this but I wish he would sort out his tackle technique. I think that is an issue and that it the reason why that he is finding himself in those head collisions because he is very chest-up."
Even if he is just echoing what Shane Horgan and others have already said, Sexton may take such advice from O'Driscoll with a pinch of salt. This is the man who barrelled into Springbok monster Danie Rossouw without a thought for his own safety on the 2009 Lions Tour.
The same man had to be helped from the Aviva pitch in 2013 after being run over by Vincent Debaty.
But all these collisions did play on O'Driscoll's mind when he retired 18 months ago.
"After I finished I felt I was slowing down a small bit. I just felt as though my coordination wasn't quite the same, so I went and got a load of neurological tests and scans just to be sure," O'Driscoll told David Walsh. "Excuse the pun but it was all in my head.
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