After booking his place at next year's Rio Olympics over the weekend, Irish boxer Paddy Barnes was greeted at Dublin Airport this afternoon by IABA president Tommy Murphy. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

Home

• Fergus McFadden and Kane Douglas have been ruled out for the rest of Leinster’s season, while Connacht look set to be without their top-three locks as they aim to secure a top six-place in the Pro12.
  
• Irish second-row forward Eoin Sheriff is to join London Irish from Saracens.
• Despite losing the sight in one eye in 2010, former Leinster player Ian McKinkley is set to line out for the Barbarians tomorrow.
• Semple Stadium will host this year’s Allianz Hurling League final between Cork and Waterford on 3 May.
• Tipperary’s championship preparations have been dealt a blow with the news that forward John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dywer has suffered a suspected broken finger.
• UFC president Dana White is tipping Joseph Duffy as a potential future world champion.

Away

Roscommon's Neil Collins and Donal O’Hare of Down with Cork's Colm O’Driscoll and James McCarthy of Dublin at Croke Park to preview the Allianz Football League finals. Ryan Byrne / INPHO Ryan Byrne / INPHO / INPHO

• All Blacks out-half Aaron Cruden looks certain to miss this year’s Rugby World Cup after suffering a knee injury.
• Tragic news emerged from Australia as rugby player Nicholas Tooth died after suffering a head injury in a game over the weekend.
  
• Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain and one other unnamed European club are interested in signing PSV Eindhoven’s Memphis Depay, according to the club’s technical director.
• David Moyes has revealed that he had to fight to prevent Wayne Rooney from joining Chelsea during his time at as Manchester United manager.
• Mario Balotelli took aim at match officials after his late effort against Aston Villa in Liverpool’s FA Cup semi-final defeat was incorrectly disallowed.
• It’s Tebow Time again in the NFL.

The Best Thing We Shared

Doncaster Rovers produced this brutally honest highlights clip of their 0-0 draw against Fleetwood Town in League One on Saturday.

Where We Were Today

Fintan O’Toole was at Croke Park for a preview of the Allianz Football League Division 1 and 2 finals, which was attended by members of the four teams involved — including Dublin’s James McCarthy.

Ryan Byrne / INPHO Ryan Byrne / INPHO / INPHO

On The Record

Leinster came to Marseille ‘nourished by the possibility of revenge’ and ‘with no intention of playing, nor making it a spectacle’.

Murray Kinsella brought us the reaction of some of the French press to Leinster’s Champions Cup semi-final defeat to Toulon in Marseille yesterday.

The Fixture List

All eyes tomorrow evening will be on the second-leg action in the Champions League quarter-finals. Bayern Munich will have home advantage as they aim to overturn a 3-1 deficit against Porto, while Paris St German will have a mountain to climb against Barcelona at the Camp Nou. The French side also trail 3-1 from the first-leg.

Showbiz, baby!

Fiji’s women were no match for New Zealand in the quarter-finals of the Canada Sevens series over the weekend, but Priscilla Siata’s score in the 26-5 loss shows a brilliant array of skills with both hands and feet to keep the ball alive.

“If his life depended on having a cup of coffee he’d still wait for someone else to make it.”

7 reasons to watch Ireland’s top female MMA star in UFC action this weekend

Nice gesture by the Waterford hurlers after news of Tipperary player Noel McGrath’s illness