After the swan song

Over the Christmas while he was back home for a few weeks, Tadhg Kennelly popped over to Cork and then to Limerick for a couple of days to give Ronan O’Gara, Tomás O’Leary and a number of their other Munster colleagues some pointers on how to improve catching the high ball.

Munster’s new fitness coach Bryce Cavanagh had worked with Kennelly in their time together with the Sydney Swans and suspected that with an old dog like O’Gara still craving new tricks, Kennelly was just the man to impart some.

So, he did, lining them up and kicking and catching restarts, Garryowens, and O’Gara pinging crossfield kicks to the wings for them to catch and touch down, like Shane Horgan famously did in Croke Park five years ago now next month.