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- A 32-year-old Mayo man has pleaded guilty to stabbing Dublin footballer Jonny Cooper last year.
- The 2015 GAA/GPA Hurling Allstar team will be announced tomorrow morning, and we’ve had a go at picking our own.
- Ulster GAA officials have had their say on the ‘sledging’ row between Donegal and Tyrone.
- Munster head coach Anthony Foley believes stand-in cpatain CJ Stander has “a massive role to play” in the absence of Paul O’Connell and Tommy O’Donnell.
- Rory McIlroy participation in the World Golf Championshsips-HSBC Champions is in doubt after picking up food poisoning from a club sandwich.
- The nominations for the 2015 Irish Sports Book of the Year have been revealed today.
Away
- Arsenal were beaten 5-1 by Bayern Munich in Champions League tonight, while Chelsea earned a 2-1 win over Dynamo Kiev.
- Former chief of International Association of Athletics Federations Lamine Diack has been arrested by French police over misconduct involving doping regulations.
The best thing we shared today
Airport staff in Auckland welcome the World Cup winning New Zealand team home with the haka on the runway.
On the record
It’s all well and good competing against Scotland, Italy and France (who are far from their best at the moment). But when you come up against more physical teams than you, who understand your game and have big-ball carriers waiting for kicks to the backfield, they’ll get a gainline when they run it back and, all of a sudden, that gameplan isn’t working.
Where we were today
The42 editor Adrian Russell spoke on a panel alongside Rob Hennelly, Mark Rodden and Marie Crowe at the Web Summit this afternoon.
The fixture list
There’s Europa League football tomorrow night, with Liverpool, Tottenham and Celtic all involved. Here’s a full list of the fixtures.
Showbiz, baby!
The town of Edenbridge in Kent has built a 36-foot effigy of suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter for Guy Fawkes night. As you do.
