Saturday Sport, with Joe Mallon Motors, Sallins Rd., Naas

Europe aim to build on impressive Ryder Cup performance

GAELIC GAMES

Celbridge and Coill Dubh go head to head for a place in the final of the UPMC Senior Hurling Championship this evening.

Manguard Park is the venue for the first of this year’s semi finals which throws in a 4.45.

There will be live updates here on Kfm.

Seamus Dillion will report.

Before that, the Senior B Hurling Championship Semi Finals are down for decision.

Naas and Broadford play at 1.00, followed by the game between Leixlip and Moorefield.

St Laurences won the Osprey Hotel & Spa Reserve F Football Championship Final last night.

They had a narrow 0-16 to 1-12 win over Sarsfields

Cappagh beat Athgarvan by 11 points to 3 in the Reserve G Football Final

It is also an action packed day in the Ladies Football Championship.

The senior semi finals are both down for decision at 4.30.

Eadestown face St Laurences and Kilcullen meet Sarsfields.

Maynooth and Moorefield contest a relegation match at 4.00.

The Intermediate semi finals also throw in a 4.30, with games between Balyna and Naas, and Kill and Suncroft.

SOCCER

Manchester City look to extend their winning start to the season to seven Premier League games as part of eight top flight fixtures this afternoon.

The champions are 2 points clear at the top ahead of their trip to Wolves.

Nearest challengers Liverpool are at Tottenham in the late game.

Brighton could be level on points with the leaders before they kick-off if they win at Aston Villa in the lunchtime fixture.

Elsewhere, unbeaten Arsenal visit Bournemouth, while West Ham aim to stop a run of back-to-back defeats in the top flight when they welcome bottom side Sheffield United.

Graham Burke scored and was later sent-off as Shamrock Rovers preserved their five-point lead at the top of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division last night.

That Burke goal 18-minutes from time saw Rovers beat Shelbourne 1-nil at Tallaght Stadium.

Derry City thrashed ten-man UCD 6-nil at the Ryan McBride Brandywell.

Mark Doyle’s second half strike gave St. Pat’s a 1-nil win away to Cork City.

A Jonathan Afolabi brace took his league tally to 13 as Bohemians beat Sligo 3-1.

While Dundalk were 3-1 winners at home to Louth rivals Drogheda.

GOLF

Europe hope to build on an historic opening day at golf's Ryder Cup in Rome.

The hosts take a record- equalling five point lead over the United States into this morning's foursomes matches.

Captain Luke Donald has sent out the same four pairs that recorded a clean sweep in the format yesterday.

RUGBY

New Zealand are within touching distance of the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals after hammering Italy 96-17.

The All Blacks scored 14 tries knowing defeat would have seen them knocked out at the group stage for the first time.

Argentina kick-off today's action against already-eliminated Chile.

In Ireland’s Pool B this evening, Scotland face whipping boys Romania in Lille.

And in Pool C, Fiji face Georgia in Bordeaux.

BASKETBALL

It is week 2 of the MissQuote.ie Super League..

Undefeated Leixlip’s FloMAX Liffey Celtics go to Portlaoise this evening.

Last weekend, Celtics led by 36 points at half time and had to survive a second-half where
they only scored 13-points to beat Pyrobel Killester by 3 points.

Internationals Aine O’Connor and Sorcha Tiernan were prominent for Celtics, who’ve added
two Americans this seaons: Tianna Ayulo and Allie Navarette.

Newly promoted Portlaoise Panthers lost their opening game last weekend.

RACING

The Grade-2 PWC Champion Chase is the feature of today’s national hunt card at Gowran Park.

The first goes to post at 2.15.

And there’s also a seven-race card at Killarney today, with the first off at 1.55.