Farewell to a proper Irish legend

THE KIERAN SHANNON INTERVIEW

The great Jack Kyle passed yesterday, aged 88, but what a full life he lived and he knew it.

“You should look on the past with gratitude, the present with enthusiasm and try to look on the future with confidence,” he’d once been told — that’s how he was still thinking and living when he kindly sat down with this newspaper this past February.

TODAY it is Wales again — and a win will have Irish eyes picturing a Grand Slam again.

Just like in 2009 when at half-time in Cardiff, O’Driscoll called his teammates into a huddle to tell them “I believe in us” and O’Connell shouted as they went back out the door “We’re unbreakable! We’re unbreakable!”……… see more at :- http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/farewell-to-a-proper-irish-legend-300146.html