We'll Leave It There So: James O'Donoghue out for six months and all today's sport

We’ve also got news from the Sprinboks camp, the Champions League and the Melbourne Cup.

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General view of Springboks training today in Blackrock College The South African team trained at Blackrock College today. Billy Stickland / INPHO Billy Stickland / INPHO / INPHO

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Footballer of the Year James O’Donoghue is set to be sidelined for up to six months as the Kerry forward will have shoulder surgery this week.
Irish Olympic swimmer Barry Murphy has announced his retirement from the sport aged 29.
South Africa second row Victor Matfield says Ireland’s Paul O’Connell is the best player he has ever faced ahead of Saturday’s November International.
Scotland manager Gordon Strachan has named a 27- strong squad for the upcoming Euro 2016 qualifier against Ireland.
Our League of Ireland columnist Stuey Byrne discusses the FAI Cup final and Roddy Collins’ recent comments about the standard of the league.

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Liverpool and Arsenal are in action in the Champions League this evening. Follow the scores live here.
Protectionist won the Melbourne Cup but tragedy overshadowed Australia’s biggest race.
British police are investigating complaints that Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure was racially abused on Twitter.

The best thing we shared today

Texan golfer Michael Furrh breakes the Guinness World Record for the longest drive with the longest usable golf club. Just the 20 feet six inches!

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On the record

I’d play League 2 football with my eyes closed” – St Patrick’s Athletic midfielder Keith Fahey responds to Roddy Collins.

Where we were today

Niall Kelly and Steven O’Rourke popped over to the RDS to take in the first day of the 2014 Web Summit. We will have interviews with speakers throughout the week.

Interesting from David Epstein at #websummit on how early specialisation in sport can harm chances of making it big http://t.co/9T8bdr5Ljn
— Niall Kelly (@niallkelly) November 4, 2014

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The fixture list

There are eight Champions League fixtures on Wednesday with Manchester City at home to CSKA Moscow and Chelsea taking on Maribor in Slovenia. Check out a full list of the matches here.

Showbiz, Baby!

Wayne Rooney and Ed Sheeran appear to be good mates and the Manchester United captain attended at the pop artist’s gig last week. And Rooney even took part in a duet with Sheeran, singing ‘Lego House’.

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I just tipped the delivery man €15.”

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