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- Luke Fitzgerald has announced his retirement from rugby at the age of 28 due to injury.
- Leinster coach Leo Cullen paid tribute to Fitzgerald, calling him ‘one of the greatest wingers to have represented Leinster and Ireland’.
- Meanwhile, Scarlets have signed 24-year-old Irish lock Tadhg Beirne from Leinster.
- Shane Lowry has become the third Irish golfer to pull out of the 2016 Olympics in Rio because of fears over the Zika virus.
- It’s taking place on Saturday, July 9 but fans of Cork and Limerick still don’t know where the Round 2B qualifier clash between the sides will take place.
- A League of Ireland legend is back in management as former Shelbourne skipper Owen Heary takes the reins of the club until the end of the season.
Away
- Sadio Mané has moved to Liverpool in a £36 million deal that makes him the club’s third-most expensive signing.
- Despite announcing his resignation last night, Roy Hodgson was back in front of the media at a farcical press conference today…and wasn’t too happy about it either.
- Conversation has turned to who replaces Hodgson now and Alan Shearer threw his name in the hat while on the BBC last night.
- Jose Mourinho looks set to make Henrikh Mkhitaryan his second signing at Manchester United with the Armenian expected to sign this weekend.
- The Diaz-McGregor card is taking shape with ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone and ‘Rumble’ Johnson both added.
- World number one golfer Jason Day has also pulled out of this summer’s Olympics due to the threat of the Zika virus.
The Best Thing We Shared
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Hours after arriving home with the rest of his Irish team-mates, Seamus Coleman headed home to Killybegs as thousands lined the streets for his homecoming.
Afterwards, the Everton full-back greeted fans until the early hours of the morning.
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On The Record
I’m proud because I worked… excuse the expression, but I worked my bollocks off until today and that’s what makes me the happiest and hopefully I can do that again in what I do next. For some lads it’s a foregone conclusion. For guys like me, it’s not. It might happen, it might not happen and there’s a bit of luck involved in that. Certainly the way things fell into place for me.”
After 15 years at the top level of rugby, Eoin Reddan spoke to Rory Keane about walking away, his memories and the future.
The Fixture List
There’s no Euro 2016 games tomorrow either but we do have some GAA action.
Cork take on Kerry in the Munster junior football final in Austin Stack Park at 7.30pm while, at the same time, Limerick and Waterford battle it out in the Munster minor hurling semi-final in Walsh Park.
Showbiz, baby!
Steve McClaren gave us one of the sweetest moments of live TV we’ve seen in a while as he appeared on Sky Sports News last night to cover the England v Iceland game.
Like all good comedy, it’s all in the timing.
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