Hard to believe I’m here more than a week already with return visits to Sydney and Canberra already fading into the background. Sydney has grown on me over the years and is now one of my favourite cities in the world.

NEW YEAR’S in Sydney is different. They celebrate it in a bombastic yet laid-back way, so typical of the city itself.

WHEN Tom Kiernan was preparing his Munster side to play the All-Blacks 25 years ago there must have been a lot of different thoughts running through his mind.