Monday Morning Sport; Joe Mallon Motors, Renault and Dacia, Sallins Rd., Naas

Holder’s Naas, Clane, Celbridge and Johnstownbridge are into the Senior Football Quarter Finals.

GAELIC GAMES

The weekend’s GAA club focus was again on the county football championships: 

 Holder’s Naas, Clane, Celbridge and Johnstownbridge are into the senior quarter finals.  Maynooth beat Athy.

 Kfm brought you Live updates on all the games, in association with Pat Keogh Skoda, Ballybrittas: selling Skoda in the Midlands since 1996.

RESULTS:

Joe Mallon Motors Senior Football Championship

Group A

Clane 1-15 Clogherinkoe 2-8 (Clane 2nd win, into the QF)

Celbridge 0-18 Carbury 0-10 (Celbridge 2nd win, into the QF)

Clane and Celbridge will meet next in the final Group A game

Group B

Naas 2-10 Sarsfields 0-10.

Maynooth 3-7 Athy 0-10 (Maynooth’s Sean Hever with the first goal after 26 minutes; the other two from Eoin Donnellan either side of the break.  Both teams now on 2 points each.)

Group C

St. Laurence's 0-13 Confey 2-7 a draw (a Niall Kearney Confey point in the 65th minute levelled the game).

Raheens 3-14 Eadestown 2-11.

Group D

Johnstownbridge 1-10 Kilcock 0-10 (Sean Haire with 7 points for the Bridge; their 2nd win into QF)

Moorefield 0-12 Ballyteague 0-7.

The Auld Shebeen Athy Intermediate Football Championship

Group A

Sallins 0-14 Allenwood 0-8.

Leixlip 0-11 Castledermot 0-11.

Group B

Caragh 2-12 St. Kevin’s 0-15

Round Towers 2-5 Rathangan 0-10

Group C

Nurney 0-11 Ellistown 1-6

Two Mile House 0-`10 Straffan 1-6

Group D

Ballymore Eustace 2-17 Suncroft 1-14

Monasterevan 1-13 Kilcullen  1-10

Tom Cross Transport Junior Football Championship Round 5

Group A

Rathcoffey 0-15 Miltown 1-11

Grangenolvin a walk over from Ardclough

Group B

Cappagh 3-12 Rheban 0-12

Kill 2-13 Robertstown 0-9

RUGBY

Cian Healy is out of Ireland's squad for the Rugby World Cup due to the injury sustained against Samoa on Saturday.

As a result, Athy’s Jeremy Loughman is included, with Andy Farrell opting for a split of 18 forwards and 15 backs.

Two other Kildare players, both from Eadestown Jimmy O’Brien and Tadhg Beirne are included, as expected.

Mack Hansen, James Lowe, Hugo Keenan, O'Brien and Keith Earls in his 4th World Cup are the back-three options.

Stuart McCloskey,Garry Ringrose, Bundee Aki and Robbie Henshaw are the centres.

Andy Farrell has named three out-halves - Johnny Sexton, Ross Byrne and Jack Crowley and  three scrum-halves Jamison Gibson-Park, Conor Murray and Craig Casey.

Local Rugby: Hosie Cup results

Portarlington 19 - 36 Athy
Cill Dara 13 - 17 Naas
Portlaoise 0 - 36 Newbridge

SOCCER

Manchester City maintained their 100 percent start to the Premier League season, beating Sheffield United 2-1 at Bramall Lane.

Erling Haaland and Rodri both scored for the champions.

Darwin Nunez came off the bench to score twice as Liverpool snatched a sensational 2-1 win over Newcastle United, as the Reds bounced back from a straight red card in the first half for captain Virgil van Dijk.

Aston Villa beat Burnley 3-1 at Turf Moor where Matty Cash scored twice.

ATHLETICS

There was an eighth place finish for the Irish 4 by 400 women's relay team in their final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest last night.

Sophie Becker, Roisin Harrison, Kelly McGrory and Sharlene Mawdsley finished in a time of three minutes, 27-point-zero eight seconds.

The Netherlands took gold with Jamaica second and Great Britain in third.

GOLF

England's Todd Clements fired a brilliant final round of 63 to win his maiden DP World Tour title in the D+D Real Czech Masters.

The world number 394 carded nine birdies to finish 22 under par, a shot ahead of overnight joint leader Matt Wallace.

John Murphy and Padraigh Harrrington finished well down the field, while Shane Lowry missed the cut and now depends on a captain’s wild card pick for the Ryder Cup

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A final round of seven-under 63 helped Viktor Hovland claim the Tour Championship title last night.

The Norweigan finished on 27-under-par at East Lake - five strokes clear of Xander Schauffele (pr: zan-der shof-lay) in second.

Hovland also won the overall Fed Ex Cup race and the 18-million dollar first prize.

Rory McIlroy ended the week in fourth on 14-under-par.

F1

Max Verstappen won a record-equalling ninth consecutive Formula One race in a rain-affected Dutch Grand Prix, ahead of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso and Pierre Gasly in the Alpine.

 The defending champion's Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez was fourth.

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Reminder that this morning’s Kildare Today will review the weekend club football games, while Kildare Scoreboard from 6.30pm this evening will review all the Kildare weekend sport: GAA, Leinster Senior League and KDFL soccer, Rugby, Racing and more.