Monday Morning Sports Update

Keeping you up to date on GAA, soccer, athletics, and basketball.

GAA

Kildare will play Division 3 League football next season after losing to Louth yesterday.

The final score was: Louth 1-25 Kildare 0-25

Dublin have been relegated from Division 1.

Ger Brennan's side were beaten 20 points to 1-15 by Galway.

Monaghan are relegated after a 3-20 to 3-16 loss to Donegal.

Kerry and Donegal will contest the Division 1 final.

On Saturday, the Kildare hurlers lost their final Division 1B game away to Wexford by 3-29 to 1-14.

Kildare had already secured their Divison 1B status for next season.

Also on Saturday: Electric Ireland Leinster Minor Hurling Championship Meath 2-15 Kildare 0--18

Yesterday: Fulfil Leinster U20 Hurling Championship Venue: Manguard Park it finished Kildare 2-24, Kerry 0-15

 

Club Football 
The Hanlon Concrete Senior Football League Round 2 took place at the weekend

Celbridge top Division 1, Leixlip are top of Division 2, Division 3 leaders are Ballyteague, while Rheban lead Division 4.

We'll have the results and league tables in our lunchtime Sport bulletin

Ladies Football

In the Lidl Ladies National Football League, Division 1:  Kildare away to Waterford on Saturday.

A last minute Waterford goal made it a draw: Waterford 2-10 Kildare 1-13

It leaves Kildare in relegation trouble, ahead of a home game against Kerry next weekend.

Camogie

In the Centra Camogie League Division 3A -Kildare beat Tyrone on Saturday by 19 points to 1-14

Kildare are 2nd in Division 3A, on score difference from Armagh.
 

SOCCER
Sunderland moved above Newcastle to 11th in the Premier League with a 2-1 win.

Tottenham are still without a top flight victory in 2026 following a 3-nil defeat to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest.

West Ham missed the chance to climb out of the relegation zone , losing 2-nil at Aston Villa.

Manchester City won the EFL Cup with a 2-nil victory over Arsenal.

Two goals in four second half minutes at Wembley means Pep Guardiola become the first manager to clinch the trophy five times.

Celtic manager Martin O'Neill says defeat at Dundee United is not a fatal blow to their Scottish Premiership hopes.

The defending champions lost 2-nil and missed the chance to go second.

ATHLETICS

Kate O'Connor won bronze in the women's pen-that-lon at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Poland yesterday in a new Irish record of 4839 points.

In the final event - the 800 metres - she finished in an indoor personal best of 2:10.26.
 

BASKETBALL

Leiixlip’s Flo Max Liffey Celtics pulled off the upset of the weekend in the Domino's Women's Super League playoff quarter finals yesterday, defeating second seeds Utility Trust St. Paul's Killarney 71-65.

Brooke Kane and Destinee Bursch led the charge for Celtics, with 18 and 16 points, respectively. 

Reminder that this morning's Kildare Today will review the Kildare hurlers and football games, while later this evening Kildare Scoreboard from 6.25 will have manager and player interviews, along with the rest of the weekend Kildare Sport.