Listening to RTE via satelite this morning in France one can feel the excitement bouncing over from home.
What is more surprising is the French excitement at our win.
The local Midi Libre has a whole page about the rugby, an article on what the papers are saying (best bite is from the Observer ; Ce n’etait pas du rugby,c’etait un scene du bataille)
It also has a long article on Declan Kidney; Kidney a trouve l’equation in which I discover that he taught Maths in Pres in Cork before he took over the Irish team.
I wonder how my old Alma Mater Christians, Pres’s ancient enemies, have reconciled themselves to this.

This ancient rivalry went deep, an English friend as yet uninitiated to its importance was intrigued by an argument between two small boys, representing both establishments, on the top of a bus in the city in the sixties.
The Coup de Grace was delivered by the Christians boy who reduced his rival to pulp by saying “Anyway, you wear shorts for Confer and we wear longers ”
Game, Set and Match

For strangers I should perhaps add a note of explanation.

Confer is the sacrament of Confirmation, taken about the age of ten, when the boys were kitted out in immaculate school uniform.
The boys from Christians College wore long trousers under their Blazers where as the Presentation boys wore the more childish shorts.