Eager Reddan ready to get back in business

IT WOULD have taken every last man in Declan Kidney’s squad a good week or two to flush the disappointment of New Zealand from their systems but it took Eoin Reddan a bit longer than the rest.

The World Cup bequeathed the Leinster scrum-half a nasty chest infection that refused to bow to two courses of antibiotics and a battery of steroids and it was only late last week when the battle to full health swung his way.

It was a horrible little postscript to a tournament that didn’t go as he would have planned. Though he featured in all five games, the man from Limerick only started the pool win against Australia. Come the quarter-final, Conor Murray was jammed in the box-seat.