Friday Lunch Sports Update

Naas, Kilcock, Kilcullen Footballers Ready for W/E Semi Finals; 5 Premier League Games Off: O'Gara No to Munster

Naas, Kilcock and Kilcullen footballers have completed preparations for Saturday’s Leinster semi finals.

Naas seniors play Shelmelears of Wexford in Croke Park at 3.15

Kilcock intermediates go to O’Connor Park, Tullamore to play Clara at 1pm.

Also, at 1pm, Kilcullen are in Mullingar to play Castletown, Finea Coole Whitehall.

Kfm’s live coverage begins at 12.55pm tomorrow with commentary of the Kilcock game and rolling live updates of the Kilcullen game.

That’s followed at 3.15 by full commentary of the Naas game.

Sportsbeat Saturday from 12.55 is in association with Moyglare Sand and Gravel Kilcock and Auxilia Management Consultants, Millenium Park, Naas.

The games will be previewed this evening on KDrive at 6.30pm

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Dublin footballer Philly McMahon has announced his inter county retirement.

The Ballymun Kickhams clubman won 8 All Ireland senior medals between 2011 and 2020.

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The Republic of Ireland will begin the Nations League campaign at home to Ukraine on June 4th.

They will be away to Armenia on June 7th, at home to Scotland on June 11th and away to Ukraine 3 days later.

There will be two matches in September - away to Scotland and home to Armenia.

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This weekend's Premier League matches involving Southampton vs Brentford, Watford vs Crystal Palace, West Ham vs Norwich, Everton vs Leicester, and Manchester Utd v Brighton are off because of Covid-19 outbreaks.

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Ronan O'Gara has turned down the chance to coach Munster and will stay in charge of La Rochelle, where he is contracted until 2023.

In the Champions Cup tonight, Iain Henderson captains Ulster against Northampton at the Kingspan Stadium at 8.

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Today’s racing is in Dundalk from 4 o’clock.