The John Mulhern Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park today. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

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• Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has named a 46-man extended squad ahead of their defence of the Six Nations Championship.
• Tourism Ireland will be the Ireland cricket team’s main sponsor at the World Cup, which begins in three weeks.
• JJ Hanrahan has admitted that he can see himself returning to Munster in the future, after agreeing to join Northampton Saints next season.
• New Bohemians manager Keith Long spoke to The42 about his aspirations for the upcoming SSE Airtricity League Premier Division campaign.
• In his latest column, MMA coach John Kavanagh says he thinks Conor McGregor will stop UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo inside three rounds in May.
• TG4 have announced details of the 48 GAA matches the channel will show over the next four months. First up is Kerry v Mayo on 1 February.

Australia's Tim Cahill scores an overhead against China in their Asia Cup quarter-final. The Socceroos won 2-0. Tertius Pickard Tertius Pickard

                                                            Away

•  Real Madrid have announced the signing of 16-year-old Norwegian wonderkid Martin Odegaard for €4m. 
• There were further developments in the NFL’s deflated balls scandal, which centres around the New England Patriots, today.
• Manchester United have climbed to second in football’s rich list — behind European champions Real Madrid.

                                       The best thing we shared

Seagull gets hit by cricket ball, before making full recovery and receiving a standing ovation in the Big Bash Twenty20 clash between the Melbourne Stars and Perth Scorchers.

                                                    On the record

I’m not getting any younger. I still have a good gas tank, but can my body keep taking the damage that comes with training camps and fights? Only time will tell.” – Irish UFC fighter Neil Seery spoke to Paul Dollery ahead of his upcoming fight in Stockholm this weekend.

Where we were today

Ben Blake was out meeting Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock and Norman Whiteside as Setanta Sports launched their FA Cup fourth round coverage.

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                                                 The fixture list

• In the FA Cup fourth round, Manchester United are away to League Two outfit Cambridge United — the lowest-ranked club left in the competition. Kick-off tomorrow night is 7.55pm. 
• There two matches in the African Cup of Nations with two heavyweights Ghana and Algeria facing off at 4pm, before South Africa and Senegal meet at 7pm. 

                                               Showbiz, baby!

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