Irishman Declan Bannon from Bruff, County Limerick is the head coach of the Eden Lizards, who won the first-ever New Zealand Barbarians Under 85kg Club Cup at Eden Park.
It was a huge day for the weight-restricted grade of rugby which is rugby as you know it with all the same 15-a-side laws, but players can only weigh a maximum of 85 kilogrammes.
That’s just over 13 stone.
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Radio Kerry’s Ivan Hurley spoke to Declan Bannon about the concept and how it began but he first congratulated him on last month’s Cup success
