Wayward Wallaby O’Connor faces ‘darkness’ in World Cup bid

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Former Australian golden boy James O’Connor plans to battle his way back into the Wallabies squad for next year’s World Cup after facing his “darkness” at a meditation and sensory-deprivation retreat in Iceland.

The wayward star earned the last of his 44 caps in 2013, at the age of just 23, when his Australian Rugby Union contract was torn up after he was prevented from boarding a flight to Bali for being drunk.