Kidney homeward bound for Munster

DECLAN KIDNEY will be unveiled as the new Munster rugby coach in Limerick today in succession to the departing Alan Gaffney.

Kidney met with his Leinster management team in Dublin yesterday to discuss his planned move back to Cork, although the Munster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union has refused to confirm his appointment and were unable to positively say that a press conference was arranged for today in Thomond Park.

However, it is understood that Kidney, interviewed alongside Michael Bradley and at least two other high-profile candidates, will return to the province he helped guide to two Heineken European Cup deciders in 2000 and 2002, beating Bradley, the previous favourite for the post.