The Buildup, in association with Ladbrokes is our weekly podcast where we mark your card for the sporting action of the week ahead in the company of Ladbrokes ambassadors Kevin Doyle, Stephen Ferris and Jason Quigley.

It's the busiest weekend of sporting action we can remember and we're looking ahead to as much of it as we can in a packed show. 

Stephen Ferris joins us to discuss Ireland's suddenly massive night in Paris on Saturday where there's a Six Nations title on the line in Andy Farrell's first season. 

Mark and Mick also discuss an absolutely huge weekend of Gaelic football and hurling. All four provincial semi-finals will be decided in hurling, with Limerick and Tipperary headlining four mouth watering ties. And in football, it's straight knockout for the first time since 2000. We look ahead to a massive weekend in all four provinces. 

Mark is also going mainly GAA for his Big Shout this week. If you've a Big Shout of 25/1 or over, send us an email at thegaffer@balls.ie and you could win the coveted grand prize of two cakes and a sports biography. 

There's also a big weekend of Premier League ahead and the lads play Ladbrokes 1-2-Free where you can win €100 cash for correctly predicting the scores in three of this weekend's games.

And finally, we get Mick's NFL picks ahead of the Week 7 of the season. His good run of form came crashing down in Week 6 - can he get the mojo back? 

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