Kidney’s men join legends of ’78

FOREVER more, they’ll be spoken of in the same awed tones as the Munster team that defeated the All Blacks in 1978.

And just as Tom Kiernan was deified then for his contribution, so too will Declan Kidney after the manner in which he master-minded victory at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.

Then you had the Red Army, all 50,000 of them, so vocal and committed for 90 minutes, unashamedly shedding tears of joy and expressing their pride in song and chant as their heroes took the final step to immortality.