IRISH

rugby will never be so well resourced that it can easily dismiss the past. Eddie O’Sullivan talked in the Irish Daily Mail this week about it being a pity that he and Declan Kidney are no longer involved in the professional game here.

Kidney’s desire to stay involved after leaving the national team was never publicly shared, but O’Sullivan has tried to work here again. He was a divisive figure, but a very capable one, and he is right: it is a pity that he has been effectively discarded.