We'll Leave It There So: Keane continues to vent, Lenihan gets the call and the rest of the day's sport

NEED TO CATCH up? TheScore.ie brings you a round-up of today’s sports news…

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• More Roy Keane! Today we found out why he turned down Celtic AND Real Madrid.
• 20-year-old Hull City defender Brian Lenihan was handed his first call-up to the Ireland senior squad by Martin O’Neill today.
• Armagh wing-back and former All-Star Aaron Kernan announced his retirement from inter-county football.
• Neil Doak was announced as Ulster head coach while Les Kiss will resume his role as Director of Rugby after the World Cup.
• Cork’s Aidan Walsh said he won’t play both football and hurling in 2015.

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• Liverpool are apparently the front runners in the race to sign former Barcelona keeper Victor Valdes, provided the Spaniard passes a medical.
• Former NBA MVP Derrick Rose made his long awaited return to action for the Chicago Bulls in a pre-season friendly last night.
• Former Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo will face his old club in the Champions League next month after taking over at Schalke.
• The ERC employees who have been contracted to run the European Champions Cup in its first year, will have to move to Switzerland next year if they want to remain with the organisation.

On The Record

“Munster didn’t do anything extravagant whatsoever. Their first two tries were pick and gos, you see that in the AIL. I’m not taking away from them, but that’s all they did. It wasn’t an extravagant move, it wasn’t something really clever.”

Jamie Heaslip wasn’t overly impressed with Munster’s game plan during their 34-23 win over Leinster last Saturday.

Where we were today

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Sean Farrell was out at Leinster’s complex in UCD while our deputy editor Niall Kelly dropped by Ireland’s base in Malahide to talk to Martin O’Neill.

The best thing we shared

Limerick’s answer to ‘School of Hard Knocks’.

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The fixture list

• Second Captains Live returns to our screens tomorrow at 9.30pm on RTE 2.

Showbiz, baby

Floyd Mayweather (allegedly) wins as much money outside of the ring than we do in our entire lives.

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