Kidney keeping it low-key

DECLAN KIDNEY is unlikely to make any major adjustments to Ireland’s approach as they set out on a 2010 mission to retain their Six Nations Grand Slam title.

Subtlety will be the key for Kidney as the coach adopts a typically low-key attitude to the challenge ahead. “We will be looking at the way we are trying to play and at ways of improving in a subtle manner,” he said.

Kidney was back on home soil yesterday to pick up another award to remind him of how his 2009 had been, winning the Boardwalk Bar and Grill Supreme Cork Sports Star Award trophy. But he put it in perspective when asked to highlight the high points of the year. “We stayed healthy, and that was the main thing.”