Kidney positive as Irish look up for the battle

THE stunning snow-capped peak of Mount Taranaki looms over New Plymouth almost as forebodingly as history will loom over Ireland here tomorrow night.

The locals have a saying that “if you can’t see the mountain, that means it’s raining, and if you can see the mountain, it means it’s about to rain”. In other words, in this little corner of Taranaki, rain is inevitable.

So apparently – if New Zealand television is to be believed – is another Ireland defeat.