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With so few Irish coaches operating in the upper levels of professional rugby, the news that Conor O’Shea is primed to take over as Director of Rugby at Harlequins can only be a good thing.
Many will find it amusing that an Irishman, whose father Jerome won three All-Ireland football medals for Kerry in the 1950s, is going to be heading up the ultimate Rah Rah side in English and World rugby.
If Declan Kidney continues to produce for the Irish national side, he’ll be a shoe in as Lions Head Coach for the trip to Australia in 2013, leaving O’Shea to fill the Irish national vacancy in three years time.
Capped 35 times for Ireland at full back and currently the National Director of the English Institute of Sport, O’Shea was previously Head of the RFU academy, as well as Managing Director of London Irish.
Described by former England rugby coach Dick Best as the kind of guy you’d like to see your daughter bring home, the IRFU would do well to do exactly that.
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