Kidney rues a ‘hugely disappointing’ defeat

IT was typical of the man.

Even though Declan Kidney was down in the dumps after Ireland’s failure to win a fifth Triple Crown in seven years at Croke Park on Saturday, he felt more for his team and supporters than himself.

Kidney’s old mantra that “you often learn more from defeat than victory” is sure to be tested by the four matches coming up in June against the Barbarians, New Zealand, New Zealand Maori and Australia.