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- Fergus McFadden and Kane Douglas have been ruled out for the rest of Leinster’s season, while Connacht look set to be without their top-three locks as they aim to secure a top six-place in the Pro12.
- Irish second-row forward Eoin Sheriff is to join London Irish from Saracens.
- Despite losing the sight in one eye in 2010, former Leinster player Ian McKinkley is set to line out for the Barbarians tomorrow.
- Semple Stadium will host this year’s Allianz Hurling League final between Cork and Waterford on 3 May.
- Tipperary’s championship preparations have been dealt a blow with the news that forward John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dywer has suffered a suspected broken finger.
- UFC president Dana White is tipping Joseph Duffy as a potential future world champion.
Away
- All Blacks out-half Aaron Cruden looks certain to miss this year’s Rugby World Cup after suffering a knee injury.
- Tragic news emerged from Australia as rugby player Nicholas Tooth died after suffering a head injury in a game over the weekend.
- Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain and one other unnamed European club are interested in signing PSV Eindhoven’s Memphis Depay, according to the club’s technical director.
- David Moyes has revealed that he had to fight to prevent Wayne Rooney from joining Chelsea during his time at as Manchester United manager.
- Mario Balotelli took aim at match officials after his late effort against Aston Villa in Liverpool’s FA Cup semi-final defeat was incorrectly disallowed.
- It’s Tebow Time again in the NFL.
The Best Thing We Shared
Doncaster Rovers produced this brutally honest highlights clip of their 0-0 draw against Fleetwood Town in League One on Saturday.
Where We Were Today
Fintan O’Toole was at Croke Park for a preview of the Allianz Football League Division 1 and 2 finals, which was attended by members of the four teams involved — including Dublin’s James McCarthy.
On The Record
Leinster came to Marseille ‘nourished by the possibility of revenge’ and ‘with no intention of playing, nor making it a spectacle’.
Murray Kinsella brought us the reaction of some of the French press to Leinster’s Champions Cup semi-final defeat to Toulon in Marseille yesterday.
The Fixture List
All eyes tomorrow evening will be on the second-leg action in the Champions League quarter-finals. Bayern Munich will have home advantage as they aim to overturn a 3-1 deficit against Porto, while Paris St German will have a mountain to climb against Barcelona at the Camp Nou. The French side also trail 3-1 from the first-leg.
Showbiz, baby!
Fiji’s women were no match for New Zealand in the quarter-finals of the Canada Sevens series over the weekend, but Priscilla Siata’s score in the 26-5 loss shows a brilliant array of skills with both hands and feet to keep the ball alive.
“If his life depended on having a cup of coffee he’d still wait for someone else to make it.”