TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY has sent a good luck message to Declan Kidney and the Irish rugby team, wishing them well ahead of their Rugby World Cup opening match against the United States tomorrow morning:
Dear Declan,I want to wish you and all the squad every success in the coming weeks.
To represent your country on the international stage is an honour and the lads have always done so with huge pride, great determination, wonderful dignity and that fantastic will to give their all. They respect the Green Jersey and all that it represents.
I have no doubt but that they will do us proud in New Zealand.
Please pass on my very best wishes to all your squad, your management team and all who are with you. Do your best.
Enda
We’ll have full live coverage of Ireland v the USA tomorrow morning – kick-off in New Plymouth is at 7am.
Send your message to the boys in the comments field below – if you keep them clean, we’ll send them onto the lads in NZ.
Take the field. Look over the heads of your opposition. Focus on the uprights, this is your goal. Breathe. Rember you are not representing Ireland, for 80 minutes you are Ireland. Breathe. 80 minutes may seem long when you are camped on your 22, and defending you line. It is not. Time is short. Live every minute as if it is your last time in a green shirt, sooner than you expect it will be. Breathe. Look beyond the opposition who stand between you and your goal. Move forward, always forward and remember today for a short 80 minutes, you are Ireland.
So … Don’t forget to breathe !!!
Andrew, thats excellent.
Craig, sounds like you have never played rugby
Doloris, what a petty comment to make on the eve of the world cup. Petty provincial rivalry right now is pathetic. BOD is our best player.
I am a munster man (living in Dublin) by the way
Anybody with a double name is a tit.
good luck to our gang in the land of the long white cloud,its time to stand up and fight.
A lot done, more to do…
Best of luck men! This is the start of a journey!!
best of luck we are hoping for good game plenty tries no ingeries moss connell
Ronan don’t forget the last 15 mins
Go on boys do the bizz. I have great trust in the munster lads —— let BOD in the dug out!!!!
Good woman! Leave sexton longside him too!
Think sticky hands, fast feet, and cricket scores.. Come on lads give us a great start.. Good luck to you all..
Do your best, and remember it’s the taking part that counts! :-\
in it too win it mr dirt , why else bother ?
Sexton will choke again and miss a shed load of kicks.
Prophetic. Do the lotto man with foresight like that!
Your on the ball lad. Bet the young lad in that O2 ad wouldn’t waste his first pick on him after that!!!
Good luck, give it all you’ve got and there will be no regrets.
Walk into them!
What a great game keep it up boys x