Sunday Sport

Man City begin defence of Premier League title

The Joe Mallon Motors Senior Football Championship continues this afternoon with three games at St Conleth’s Park.

The Group D encounter between  Confey and  Kilcock opens procedings at 2pm.

That will be followed by the Group B match between Sarsfields and Raheens at 3.45

Naas and Athy contest a Group A game at 5.30.

There will be updates from all of those games here on KFM.

Ger McNally will report from Newbridge.

There is a 12 o’clock start to the day’s Auld Shebeen Bar Athy Intermediate Football Championship action at Hawkfield.
 
The Group D match between Milltown and Suncroft is first up

Then Ballyteague meet Kilcullen in Group C

The Group D game between  Monasterevan and Nurney, and the Group A match between Sallins and Castledermot follow at 3.00 and 4.30.

Seamus Dillion will bring us updates through out the afternoon.

The opening weekend of the Premier League continues today.

Manchester United are looking to get Erik ten Hag's tenure as manager off to a winning start this afternoon.

The Red Devils kick off their Premier League campaign with a home clash against Brighton at 2pm.

Also at 2pm, Leicester City get their season underway as they play host to Brentford.

Defending champions Manchester City begin the defence of their title with an away fixture against West Ham United.

Kick off at the London Stadium is at 4:30pm.

🐝 WE'RE BACK! 🐝

We return to @premierleague action! 🙌#ManCity pic.twitter.com/SIQdk0JHOg

— Manchester City (@ManCity) August 7, 2022

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Here at home, there is one game in the SSE Airticity Premier Division.

Bohemians make the trip out west to take on Sligo Rovers.

Kick off at the Showgrounds is at 4:45pm

The game between Shelbourne and St Patrick's Athletic has been called off due to travel delays for the Saints.

Leona Maguire is 12 shots off the lead heading into the final round of the Women's Open at Muirfield.

South African Ashleigh Buhai sits on top of the leaderboard on 14 under par.

Shane Lowry has yet to complete his third round at the weather delayed Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.

On 1 under par, through 13 holes he is 11 shots off the lead jointly held by Sung-jae Im and Brandon Wu.

Paul Dunne is best of the Irish heading into the final round of the Cazoo Open in Wales.

The Greystones golfer is on 1 under par..

England's Callum Shinkwin leads on 11 under par.

RACING

And there's racing in Downpatrick this afternoon.

The first of 7 races goes to post at half past 2.