Kidney comes face to face with Gaffney

MUNSTER coach Alan Gaffney is indebted to Declan Kidney. When the coaches first met they got on like the proverbial house on fire.

And Kidney obviously had an influence in Gaffney’s appointment as his successor on the southern throne.

But today, at Donnybrook (5.15pm), the two will look each other in the eye, but then keep their distance for a game that promises to be one of the highlights of the early stages of the Celtic League campaign.