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- Roy Keane’s second autobiography, The Second Half, comes out Thursday and extracts were leaked today. Topics covered include Keane loafing Peter Schmeichel, Rio Ferdinand’s missed drugs test and Keane eviscerating everyone in sight at training.
- Leinster’s injury crisis continued with the news that Fergus McFadden will miss six weeks with an ankle injury.
- The question of whether Jack Grealish will declare for Ireland or England took another twist after the youngster withdrew from an Ireland U21 squad so he can train with Aston Villa.
- Boylesports have made James Horan the favourite to succeed Jim McGuinness as Donegal manager after a flurry of bets were placed on the former Mayo boss to get the job.
Away
- The European Rugby Champions Cup finally has a main sponsor and it will be very familiar to rugby fans.
- Legendary Olympian Michael Phelps is taking another break from swimming after his recent arrest for drink driving.
- There have been rumours of Real Madrid sniffing around Raheem Sterling, but Brendan Rodgers says the winger is close to signing a new deal.
- As well as getting a sponsor, the European Rugby Champions Cup and its junior partner, the European Rugby Challenge Cup, have shiny new trophies.
On The Record
“Edwin, why don’t you shut the fuck up? You’ve been at this club for two minutes and you’ve done more interviews than I’ve done in my 12 years. It was MUTV – I had to do it.”
This was Roy Keane’s reaction when the recently signed Edwin van der Sar raised the infamous MUTV interview with Keane.
Where we were today
Our GAA editor Fintan O’Toole was speaking to Colm Cooper at Parnells GAA club for the launch of Lucozade’s Kit Out Project while Murray Kinsella was at the Convention Centre for the European Rugby Champions Cup media day.
The best thing we shared
Katie Taylor and Paul O’Connell are sports friends!
The fixture list
- The FAI Cup semi-final replay between Derry City and Shamrock Rovers takes place at the Brandywell.
Showbiz, baby
The GAA/GPA announced a partnership with Best Menswear today and Dublin’s Danny Suttcliffe was one of the lucky players who got kitted out in some nice gear.
