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- According to the Manchester Evening News, Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane is under investigation after being involved in a road-rage incident with a taxi driver near his home in Cheshire this morning.
- Plans have been unveiled for a swanky makeover of the RDS, with work expected to start in April 2016.
- Donegal, Derry and Tyrone all named their teams for tomorrow night’s opening Allianz Football League fixtures.
- Joe Brolly and Kieran Donaghy appear to have settled their differences, making them football friends again.
- Munster have signed Denis Hurley to a new contract, but Paddy Butler and Sean Dougall are leaving the province.
- Rory McIlroy will take a one-shot lead into tomorrow’s third round at the Dubai Desert Classic.
- The draws for the quarter-finals of the Leinster and Munster Schools Senior Cup competitions are now complete.
- Irish U21 international Mikey Drennan has joined Shamrock Rovers after four years with Aston Villa.
- Conor McGregor says his UFC title fight against Jose Aldo is likely to take place in July, and ‘The Notorious’ has also gained a new fan in Prince Naseem Hamed.
- With the start of the Six Nations just a week away, Joe Schmidt’s Ireland rugby squad held an open training session at the Aviva Stadium today.
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- Chelsea will be without Diego Costa for tomorrow’s top-of-the-table clash with Manchester City after the striker had a three-match ban upheld today.
- In transfer news, Fiorentina’s Juan Cuadrado looks to be on his way to Stamford Bridge.
- Defending Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka was beaten in today’s semi-final by Novak Djokovic, who’ll face Andy Murray in Sunday’s decider.
- Meanwhile, Murray has defended his fiancee Kim Sears, after she appeared to be caught on camera swearing at her husband-to-be’s semi-final opponent Tomas Berdych yesterday.
- Gary Neville and fellow pundit Stan Collymore have come to blows on Twitter.
- A new £240 million deal has been signed for Match of the Day to continue until 2019.
The best thing we shared today
Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, we asked our colleagues at The Journal and The Daily Edge what they know about American Football. Very little, it seems.
On the record
We are going over to Australia/New Zealand to play good cricket against the big boys and it’s another great opportunity for us as players to show what we’re capable of.
The Ireland cricket team departed for the World Cup today and Irish all-rounder Kevin O’Brien told The42‘s Ryan Bailey that they’re keen to make a statement once again.
Where we were today
Our man Murray Kinsella headed for Musgrave Park in Cork, where Sean O’Brien is making his long-awaited return for the Ireland Wolfhounds’ meeting with England Saxons.
The fixture list
- Eight games tomorrow in the Premier League, including Chelsea vs. Manchester City at 5.30pm.
- The Allianz Football League also begins, with the main focus on two games in Division One: Donegal vs. Derry and Tyrone vs. Monaghan (both 7.00pm).
- Serena Williams plays Maria Sharapova in the women’s singles final at the Australian Open (not before 8.30am).
Showbiz, baby!
Bubba Watson hit an outrageous drive on the par-four 17th at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Have you ever kicked a game-winning field goal?
Close in on 4th = Are in 6th place which will be 7th place after spurs play their game in hand
@Chief: I’m on my way to being a millionaire after buying a ticket today.
@Chief: close in on 4th= 3 points closer to 4th than 3 hours ago.
Does that mean a couple of more wins and they be closing in on top spot? Daft journslism
@Mel Finn: playing to the gallery.
Peter Wright looking good in darts.
@Paul Gorry: dont know we weren’t watching it? Your in the wrong article again..
@Pauly Kel: Happy new year pauly, it was just a jest.
@Paul Gorry: you too man.
@Paul Gorry: obsessed. Typical scouser.
@Pauly Kel: appreciated Pauly.
@Karl Ó Cléirigh: give over karl my comment was light hearted for a bit of craic.now your comment is looking like you’re obsessed?
@Paul Gorry: I don’t see it that way but hey all you scouse fans are the same.
@Karl Ó Cléirigh: ok karl iam trying to relise ye a good bloke or a bad bloke?But now realise yer a bad bloke. Yer immature comment says it all really.
@Paul Gorry: grow up haha
@Karl Ó Cléirigh: oh the irony karl.
@Paul Gorry: the irony being you (a Liverpool fan) putting a smart comment on a United story and people are calling you out on it and you’re getting defensive?! Very ironic don’t you think?…..
What has Ferguson’s 80th birthday got to do with it?
@PeterC: got to do, got to do with it?
Strange lack of liverpool and Chelsea fans passing comments on man utds performance here tonight after the last couple of nights..
@Pol Mlp: i would have pol but I was watching the darts. More exciting to be fair.
@Paul Gorry: good point…anderson v humphries will be a 180 fest on new years day methinks
@Paul Gorry: Don’t think you can objectively say “more exciting to be fair” if you only watched the darts. That’s a rather silly comment to make in fairness. If you watched both you could make that comparison. What was better on the 28th? Liverpool or the darts?
@Pol Mlp: Liverpool and Chelsea fans only worry about teams at the top end of the table. Not mid table teams like utd.
@David Gaffney: liverpool obviously. Iam fluck ing having a laugh here David. Lighten up.
Really. Here we go they draw with Newcastle and win tonight against teams that more than likely will get relegated. Oh well done Utd
@Marcus Springfield: your correct. They should only report on games that United lose.
@Marcus Springfield: Really? Oh really??
@Brian Dunne: Yeah and especially the games where they get hammered… It makes some sleep well at nite here. So dull when there’s no United bashing to be had in the comments section!
@Brian Dunne: they would run out of ink then ;)
Dillusional. 4th place is Westham Spurs or Arsenal. Utd are done.
@Paul Smith: on the sherry early then…
@Paul Smith: Yeah you wish… The usual garbage… Top 4 is open to a few teams this year and it’ll be interesting regardless of who you support
3pts. Good game from mcsauce. A game of two halves, first exciting, second boring af. Onto the next one. Jack Byrne an assured presence in the studio on the punditry.
@Fred spins kdb: Definitely a better performance than recently + Wan Bissaka looked better tonight…still a lot of work to do but some positives even if the 2nd half was a snooze fest!
Looks like Scotty Mac got some new shooting boots off Santy… 1st half was good, 2nd half not so good.. 3 points and move on hopefully win the game in hand over West Ham and Arsenal.. And hope that Spurs make a mess of theirs
As United fan I wouldn’t make such a statement about them pushing for fourth just one win after a dismal match against Newcastle. If the top is where we want to be then we should constantly be demanding more, not getting ahead of ourselves over short term success.
Liverpool and Chelsea looking wobbly.
Well, considering Utd will be doing well to get 60 points this season, you can understand understand them wanting to celebrate one of their own achieving any sort of 80 this season !!!