Monday Morning Sports Update

Keeping you up to date on GAA, Soccer, Golf, and F1.

GAA

Following yesterdays UPMC senior hurling semi finals defending champions Naas and Maynooth will, again, meet in the final

It will be Naas’s 8th consecutive county hurling final appearance.

The semi final results:

Naas 4-32 Eire Og Corra Choill 0-6

Maynooth 3-21  Celbridge 1-17

Senior relegation semi finals:

Coill Dubh 3-17 Clane 1-15

Ardclough 1-19 Confey 1-14

Intermediate hurling championship semi final, Leixlip 0-21 Broadford 1-14

Leixlip will play the winners of Tuesday evening’s Moorefield vs Naas semi final

Wolfe Tones are county Junior hurling champions. In Saturday’s final, they beat Kilcock by 4-17 to 1-14

National Electrical Wholesalers Intermediate Football A Final: Ellistown 0-12 Nurney 0-4

Kfm’s Club football and hurling championship coverage this year is in association with FJS Plant, Naas: FJS.ie 

Naas are Cúl Sliotars senior Camogie Champions.  In Friday night’s final, they beat Celbridge by 3-13 to 3-8

Yesterday’s finals’ results
Intermediate Final:  Johnstownbridge 2-11 Wolfe Tones 2-10

Junior A Final   Éire Óg Corra Choill  3-17 Straffan 4-11

Junior B  Final  Clane 3-7 Kilcock 2-8

This morning’s Kildare Today with Hannah Kelly will review the hurling and camogie games, while Kildare Scorebaord this evening from 6.25 will review all the weekend Kildare Sport

In county finals:

Portarlington are Laois Senior Football champions for the sixth time in seven years.

Managed by MOOREFIELD and former Kildare star Ronan Sweeney, Port had 14-points to spare over Courtwood: 1-19 to 0-8, at O'Moore Park.

An Tóchar won their third-ever Wicklow senior football title, and a first since 1995 beating Blessington 0-21 to 1-9 in Aughrim.

Wicklow have confirmed Oisín McConville will lead the county's senior footballers into the 2027 campaign.

Soccer

In the Premier League, Man City beat Liverpool 3 nil at Anfield.

Liverpool were down to 10 after 62 minutes when Ryan Gravenberch got a 2nd second yellow

3 minutes later Erling Haaland scored for City

Subsitute Jeremy Doku curled home a second 3 minutes after Haaland;’s goal, and Rayan Cherki got the third after 78 minutes, to give City their first back-to-back league wins at Anfield since January 1953

Everton remain unbeaten, and go 5th, after drawing 2-all at Hull.

Crystal Palace beat Nottingham Forest 3-1.

Celtic have returned to the top of the Scottish Premiership with a 2-nil win at Motherwell.

Golf

Shane Lowry shot a final round 3 under 68 at the Spanish Open, to finish 8 under par, 6 shots off the winner Grant Forest.

F1

Max Verstappen won the Singapore Grand Prix, his second successive Formula One victory in a week.

World championship leader Kimi Antonelli was third.