News from the Indo today that Ireland A won’t be competing in this years Churchill Cup in June. Declan Kidney has decided that it wouldn’t be in the best interestsof the Provinces or Country if Ireland took part in this years Churchill Cup.

Kidney will be traveling to to NZ and Australia with the Top 30 players in the senior side. These players won’t then won’t be available for the start of the Magners League leaving the Provinces without 30 of their front line players.

So to subtract another 30 players from this for the Churchill cup would leave the provinces with a skeloton team of academy players to start the league with.

Kidney is quoted as saying “My job is to make it work,” 

“So that’s what I will do. And that will get me in trouble sometimes because I won’t speak about that in public. But the important thing is to make it work, not save myself. I’m not holding myself up as holier than thou. There’s little subtleties that I’m trying to change.

“We want it to work. We don’t want to go down the route and being Irish and picking on one another. If you look at the resources we have against what we’ve achieved, I think we’ve achieved an awful lot. And we won’t achieve more by not working with one another.”