Monday Morning Sports Update

Keeping you up to date on GAA, soccer, cricket, formula one, and racing.

GAA

Following weekend quarter finals, Dublin and Kerry will meet in the All Ireland Football semi-final.

Dublin beat Galway yesterday by 1-25 to 1-21, while Kerry beat Tyrone by four points on Saturday

Louth and Mayo will meet in the other semi final

Yesterday, Louth had  a 27 points to 2-18 win over Monaghan, while on Saturday Mayo beat Cork.

The semi-finals will take place on the 11th and 12th of July.

Galway and Cork are through to the All-Ireland Senior Camogie semi-finals.

Defending champions Galway eased past Tipperary by 3-17 to 15 points in Athenry, while Cork had a 1-13 to 10 points win over Waterford.

Tipperary and Waterford go into the  quarter-finals next weekend in Croke Park, where they’ll play either Kilkenny or Clare.

On Saturday, Kildare Camogie got their All Ireland Junior campaign back on track with a 6-21 to 1-5 win over Wicklow in Cedral St. Conleth’s Park.

Kildare will be away to Tyrone next weekend, where a win will put them into the All Ireland semi final.

This morning’s Kildare Today will review the game, while this evening’s Kildare Scoreboard from 6.30pm will review the game and have camogie manager Rob O’Neill interview.
 

SOCCER

Canada grabbed a late winner to secure a 1-0 victory over South Africa in the opening game of the World Cup round of 32 last night

Stephen Eustaquio scored in stoppage-time in Los Angeles - Canada's first ever goal in the knockout stages of the tournament.

Jesse Marsch's side will next face either the Netherlands or Morocco for a place in the quarter-finals.

The Round of 32 continues tonight with three more places in the last 16 up for grabs.

At 6pm, five-time champions Brazil take on Japan in Houston.

Germany face Paraguay from 9.30pm - Julian Nagelsmann's side are favourites despite their surprise defeat to Ecuador in the group stage

Then at 2am Irish time, the Netherlands meet Morocco.

CRICKET

Ireland cricketers created more history, by beating India for the second time in a week.

It was a tight finish in Stormont, a 1 run victory for the hosts, who had never beaten India up until Friday and now have a T 20 series win over the tourists.

FORMULA ONE

George Russell is back in the Formula One title race after claiming victory at the Austrian Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver converted pole position into his first win since the opening race of the season, finishing ahead of Max Verstappen, with championship leader Kimi Antonelli taking third.

RACING

Benvenuto Cellini bounced back from his Epsom disappointment to win the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Ryan Moore guided the Aidan O'Brien-trained favourite to victory, finishing a length and three-quarters clear of stablemate Christmas Day, with Pierre Bonnard completing a Ballydoyle one-two-three.

The success was O'Brien's 18th Irish Derby triumph.