‘Are you better off with Plymouth or Real Madrid?’

THE FAMILY is still back home in Cork - though he spends six days a week in Dublin - and there are those who contend his heart still lies in Munster.

But as Declan Kidney, one of rugby’s finest Irish coaches, insists: “A lot of things have happened over the past 12 months and I’m enjoying where I am.”

As an aside, he says: “It’s nice to be working with Irish players”, referring to the fact he was contracted to the Welsh Dragons last summer before circumstances allowed him to take over at Leinster.