Brumbies considering move for Ireland’s backs coach Gaffney

IRELAND backs coach Alan Gaffney yesterday emerged as a shock candidate for the vacant coach’s job at Australian giants the Brumbies.

The former Munster and Leinster supremo’s IRFU contract runs out at the end of the World Cup in New Zealand this October and in recent days he has been linked with the head coach’s job at Edinburgh.

However reports in his homeland yesterday identified Gaffney as the primary challenger to South African World Cup-winning coach Jake White for the prized Brumbies post in Canberra.