Declan Kidney
| Full name | Declan Kidney | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 20 October 1959 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Rugby union coach | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1998–2002 2002–2004 2004 2004–2005 2005–2008 2008–2013 2013-present |
Munster Ireland (asst) Newport Gwent Dragons Leinster Munster Ireland UCC (Director of Sport) |
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Declan Kidney (born 20 October 1959) is a rugby union coach. He was the head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team from 2008 to 2013, where he won the 2009 Six Nations with a Grand Slam, winning the 2009 IRB Coach of the Year. He was also the head coach at Munster Rugby, leading them to four Heineken Cup finals, winning the 2006 and 2008 finals.
Kidney was born in Ballincollig, County Cork. He played rugby for UCC and later for Dolphin RFC. He studied to become a mathematics teacher, in which position he was appointed at Presentation Brothers College, Cork, and later became the career guidance officer.
He took on the role of rugby coach at the school, where he had initial success as coach of the junior and later senior side.
Following his coaching of the Irish Schools team, Kidney coached the Ireland under 19s team which won the FIRA World Cup in 1998.
After the 1998 Tournament he joined Munster. His initial stint at Munster ended in 2002, when he left to become Ireland's assistant coach. He was replaced at Munster by Alan Gaffney.
In the summer of 2004, he became coach at Newport Gwent Dragons. However, in August 2004, after only 3 months in the job, he left to join Leinster.
He rejoined Munster in 2005, winning the Heineken Cup in his first season back, after losing in both 2000 and 2002 in the final. After this win, Kidney was awarded the 2006 Philips Sports Manager of the Year award, and on 24 May 2008, his Munster squad won the Heineken Cup once again.
Kidney was succeeded as Munster coach in July 2008 by Tony McGahan, when Kidney became the Irish national coach. He coached the Irish team to the Grand Slam and Triple Crown in 2009, in his first year as head coach. In June 2009, coached Ireland Wolfhounds, then known as Ireland A, to their first Churchill Cup. He was awarded the 2009 IRB Coach of the Year. He was also awarded the 2009 Phillips Manager of the Year for the third time in four years, beating Brian Cody, John Oxx and Giovanni Trapattoni to the title.
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