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Now, plenty of news in sports.

It's been a really busy 24 hours for Irish sports stars with big moves being made in snooker, in soccer and in hurling.

Let's get the latest on all of this.

I'm joined by senior sports writer with The 42, Gavin Casey.

Good morning, Gavin.

I'm very well.

So first, let's go to the news of Derek Ling, who's leaving his Kilkenny manager role a year earlier than expected.

Yeah, so your point is that the manager may not be the problem here.

Well, Ken Doherty's bowing out as well.

And before we have a chat about that, let's listen back to the commentary when he won the World Snooker Championship back in 1997.

Just through the beach, a day trip with my mum and dad and enjoy simple things.

My grandmother used to make sugar sandwiches and we'd run out and we'd play around.

It was great times, wonderful.

A champion, Gavin, but also one of the nicest men that you'll meet in sport or any other walk of life.

He's bowing out of the professional game.