Carla Rowe (Dublin) Aimee Mackin (Armagh) Tracy Leonard (Galway) Aoife McAnespie (Monaghan) and Aislinn Desmond (Kerry) at the launch of the Lidl National Ladies Football League. Gary Carr / INPHO Gary Carr / INPHO / INPHO

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• 15-year-old Irish tennis star Georgia Drummy qualified for the Junior Australian Open this morning.
• Rory Best says he’s unbelievably lucky to be Ireland captain. But Jonathan Sexton says it was an easy choice.
• Dublin’s Paul Flynn issued a staunch defence of the GPA
  
• Ulster and Ireland back Stuart Olding is set to make a return to rugby after 10 months out through injury.

Golfers briefly stop to take in a bit of Munster Schools Cup rugby as Rockwell met Bandon in Clanwilliam Park, Tipperary. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

• It’s going to be tight in France. 275,000 Irish people have applied for tickets to our three games at Euro 2016.
• Rory McIlroy held a slight upper hand after his season-opening round against World Number 1 Jordan Spieth.
• How many races has Ruby Walsh won? The man himself isn’t keeping count anyway

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• Argentina and Barcelona midfielder Javier Mascherano was sentenced to, but will avoid, a year in prison after charges of tax fraud.
• Steven Gerrard wants his former team-mates to adapt to Jurgen Klopp’s gameplan.

Javier Mascherano in a Barcelona court today. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

• Two-time Grand Slam winner Lleyton Hewitt reckons match-fixing claims against him are ‘a joke’.
• Liverpool are stumping up €32 million, and the rest of today’s transfer gossip is right here.
• Toulon owner Mourad Boujellal wants to take his talents to the Premiership
• Australia’s Sevens bid at the Olympics just got better by a measure of exactly one Quade Cooper.
• The NFL has its first full-time female coach after Kathryn Smith was appointed to the team behind the Buffalo Bills’ special teams.

The Best Thing We Shared

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga definitely isn’t one of the tennis players cheating people out of hard earned money. What a gent (here’s the background).
https://streamable.com/lenn?t=23.9

On The Record

Their legacy is secured, that I’d say they’re just enjoying football. They’re going to go down in history as the greats.”

– Kerry’s David Moran on Marc O’Se and Aidan O’Mahony.

Where we were today

Sean Farrell trotted up to Leinster’s UCD base to hear what Jonathan Sexton had to say for himself.

Gary Carr / INPHO Gary Carr / INPHO / INPHO

Showbiz, Baby!

If you hear some unusual phrases being roared at Wexford footballers this year, don’t worry, it’s just their new selector Timmy McCarthy – he of the commentating on the basketball fame. Can’t see the video? Click here.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsk4yf_output-merge_animals#tab_embed