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• Roy Keane hits out at Everton: ‘Maybe their players need to toughen up a bit’
• James McClean sat out Ireland training with a back issue today
• Mick Kearney backed Jamie Heaslip for World Rugby Player of the Year
• SGB featherweight James Gallagher is predicting ‘the best Conor McGregor we’ve ever seen’ at UFC 205
• New All-Star Jonny Cooper discussed his victorious 2016 campaign with Dublin
• A renowned specialist has spoken out about the alarming rate of hip injuries among top GAA players
• Former All-Ireland winner with Cork Fintan Goold has retired from inter-county football
• 8 Dundalk players were included in Soccer Republic’s Team of the Year
• Sean O’Brien reveals he missed the All Black Test in more ways than one
• Michael Shields and Ken O’Halloran will return to the Cork senior football squad for the 2017 pre-season

Away

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• Steph Curry sank an incredible 13 three-pointers to break the NBA record
• Jimmy Graham led the Seahawks to a controversial win over the Bills
• Ben Barba was released by his club Cronulla Sharks after failing a drugs test for cocaine use
• Inter Milan have brought in former Lazio manager Stefano Pioli to replace Frank de Boer

The Best Thing We Shared

This was a really nice tribute to a pair of rugby icons.

On The Record

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Roy Keane took a pop at Everton during today’s Ireland press conference in Abbotstown.

I think they’re out of the League Cup, Norwich beat them at Goodison. So maybe Everton as a club, and it’s a brilliant football club, maybe their players need to toughen up a bit.”

Where We Were Today

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Sean Farrell spoke to Ireland’s Keith Earls and Sean O’Brien at training in Carton House, while Murray Kinsella chatted with Peter O’Mahony and Finlay Bealham.

Paul Fennessy was at Ireland’s press conference in Abbotstown today where Roy Keane and Dundalk duo Andy Boyle and Daryl Horgan spoke to the media.

The Fixture List

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• There are a couple of international friendlies taking place tomorrow — Greece take on Belarus and the Netherlands play Belgium.
  

Showbiz, Baby!

The delightful pass from Diarmuid Connolly is doing the rounds from last Sunday’s Dublin SFC final. Not bad!
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Roy Keane on Everton: ‘Maybe their players need to toughen up a bit’

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