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Shamrock Rovers players are put through their paces at Lansdowne Road. James Crombie / INPHO James Crombie / INPHO / INPHO

Home

• Mayo manager James Horan rejected reports of a row between himself and coach Donie Buckley as “mind-boggling”
• Mikey Sheehy hits back at Pat Spillane’s comments that Kerry are just half-way through a trophy-less famine
  
• Rob Heffernan told us just how appealing the distractions are when you’re a world champion
• Tipperary is buzzing about the return of Lar Corbett for his club at the weekend
• The League of Ireland goal of the month candidates had us drooling

Away

• Tim Sherwood’s gilet won’t be appearing in the White Hart Lane dugout any longer
• Defending World Cup champions Spain named a scarily good squad for Brazil
• While the hipsters’ choice Belgium also announced who’d be representing the Red Devils
• An Egyptian soccer player in Sweden has turned to Gaelic football in Stockholm in an attempt to attract the attention of League of Ireland clubs
• Soldier Field in Chicago will host the All-Blacks as they take on the USA in November

The best thing we shared

If you think referees in football or hurling have it hard, imagine trying to step between two MMA lightweights when one of them decides not to listen to your instructions to stop fighting. Take a bow Leon Roberts.

On the record

“Louth are unique. There is a certain mindset that exists within the county. That is not necessarily football specific. They don’t expect to do well, they don’t expect to excel or to exceed expectation so that kind of does permeate into minds.”

- Aidan O’Rourke on the challenge he faces in charge of the Wee County’s footballers.

Where we were today

Sean Farrell was down in Munster for a press briefing ahead of their RaboDirect Pro 12 semi-final with Glasgow.

The fixture list

Here’s what’s coming up tomorrow:

• Soccer: Second-placed (Premier League) Liverpool take on second-placed Shamrock Rovers (Airtricity League Premier Division) in the Aviva Stadium at 5.30pm
• Soccer: Sevilla and Benfica go head-to-head in the Europa League final at 7.45pm
• GAA: The Dublin senior football championship starts with five games including reigning All-Ireland champions St. Vincent’s taking on St. Pat’s, Palmerstown in Parnell Park at 8.15pm
• NHL: The race for the Stanley Cup continues with game seven between the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins at midnight
• NBA: The Pacers have the chance to wrap up their series with Washington in game five in Indiana at midnight

Showbiz baby!

Taniela Tupou looks a decent player but could he do it on a wet Saturday afternoon in Musgrave Park? He probably could to be fair.

“The environmental movement of our times was sparked by the re-release of Bambi in the 1950s.”