Liverpool are back to winning ways after a dominant 3-1 victory over Tottenham last night. The champions had gone five league games without a win, and four without a goal, before Roberto Firmino, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Sadio Mane all hit the target in an impressive away win. However, Liverpool's injury woes continued as defender Joel Matip suffered ankle ligament damage. In his column this morning Éamon Zayed explains why he would like to see Ireland manager Stephen Kenny add a specialist forward coach to the set-up: "To be honest, I've never really understood why specialist coaching for strikers isn't a much bigger thing in football – but it is a coming thing, I'm confident of that."

The Cork and Down footballers could lose home advantage for all of their league matches following their Covid training breach. Both counties have been investigated for breach of training guidelines earlier this month and a subcommittee of the GAA's management committee reported on its findings and recommendations on Wednesday night.

The French government has cautiously given Scotland and Wales permission to travel to Paris for the Six Nations. The IRFU have cancelled the men's and women's All-Ireland League season. The women's interprovincial series has also been postponed until 2021-22. Munster secondrow Jean Kleyn has been suspended for two weeks having been cited for dangerous play against Leinster.

Meanwhile Katie Taylor has been named RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year for a second time. Limerick hurling manager John Kiely has been named manager of the year, with his All-Ireland winning side named team of the year.