Connacht fly-half Andy Dunne start at fly-half with Ulster's Niall O'Connor as his understudy on the bench.
Robbie Savage, Andrew Taylor and O'Neil all required treatment in a stop-start opening period, but although the commitment could not be questioned, the quality certainly could.
Martin O'Neill's men looked vibrant after the re-start and Van der Sar was forced to concede a corner with Ashley Young's intended cross heading towards the top corner.
Alun-Wyn Jones won the race to start alongside captain Paul O'Connell in the second row with Phil Vickery and Gethin Jenkins to prop alongside England hooker Lee Mears.
"It's dark now at seven o'clock so it was the right call not to make the re-start, " the Australian said.
We expect the three regular channels to be mostly stretch-o-vision at first, but there should be plenty of new HD content when they start to launch their original programming.
The increasingly influential Warwick landed a penalty to steady Munster at 21-14 and young scrum-half Conor Murray, who impressed on his first start, passed for O'Driscoll to rumble over for the hosts' third try.
Saturday's home match against Manchester United, a 1-0 defeat that proved to be O'Neill's last in charge, marked the start of a collaboration with the foundation of Nelson Mandela.
Given that this was Villa's 44th game of the season - three more than they played in the whole of last term - O'Neill decision to rest his key men was understandable and the hosts responded with a bright start.
For a start, as Mr O'Neill acknowledged, all budget projections are notoriously unreliable, including short-term ones.
The home side gave a first start since November to Garry O'Connor, who had suffered a broken foot in a 2-1 defeat at Ibrox, and the Scotland striker replaced veteran Mixu Paatelainen.
Cox will leave her current Radio 1 weekend shows to start work on the new programme, which will also see a high-profile role for The O-Zone presenter Rajesh Mirchandani.
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