Thursday Morning: Kildare Men's U20 Footballers Take On Reigning Champions Offaly In Semi-Final Of Leinster Championship

Game throws-in at 6.30pm & KFM will have full commentary with Ger McNally

GAELIC GAMES

Kildare men's U20 footballers take on reigning All-Ireland champions Offaly this evening, in the Leinster Championship semi-final. 

The Lilywhites will travel to O'Connor Park, Tullamore.

The game throws in at 6.30pm & KFM will have full commentary with Ger McNally from 6.25pm.

The team was named on Tuesday night:

*Team announcement *
Brian Flanagan and his Management team have announced the Kildare U20 Football team to play Offaly in the Eirgrid Leinster U20 FC S/Final.
Game throws in at 6.30pm on Thur, Apr21st, in O’Connor Park. Tullamore.
Below link for ticketshttps://t.co/j1huTsvspR pic.twitter.com/NzBfv7X9hc

— Kildare GAA (@KildareGAA) April 19, 2022

In the other last-four tie Dublin meet Meath in Parnell Park.

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The Kildare men's minor footballers made it three wins from 3 in the group stage of the Minor Championship last night.

The game against Meath was played in Manguard Plus Hawkfield, finished 2-12 to 1-10.

Niall Cronin, Kildare Minor Football Manager, gives his thoughts on progressing to a Leinster Semi Final. pic.twitter.com/rqlhiAQj1b

— Kildare GAA (@KildareGAA) April 20, 2022

SOCCER

Manchester City are back, one point clear at the top of the Premier League this morning thanks to a 3-0 victory over Brighton.

They overtook Liverpool once again to retain a narrow advantage with six games left in the title race.

Boss Pep Guardiola says his team is focused on the task ahead:

Arsenal are level on points with fourth placed Tottenham thanks to a 4-2 win against Chelsea.

Mikel Arteta's side bounced back from three straight defeats in style by claiming victory over their London rivals at Stamford Bridge.

The Arsenal boss feels it could be huge for their push for the final Champions League qualification places:

Everton moved four points clear of the relegation zone after scoring a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Leicester.

Burnley have the chance to reduce the gap to one point if they can beat Southampton tonight.

Last night's other match saw Newcastle continue their resurgence with a 1-0 win against Crystal Palace.

TENNIS

Men's world number one Novak Djokovic has called Wimbledon's decision to ban Russian and Belarussian players "crazy" saying "politics and tennis should not mix".

The British Grand Slam has become the first tournament to prevent individuals competing from the two countries following the war in Ukraine.

The ATP and WTA tours are also unhappy with the decision.

While Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, who reached the semi-finals in 2019, has also criticised the decision:

GOLF

The start of play has been delayed on the opening day of the ISPS Handa Championship in Spain.

Waterlogging on the course in Tarragona means that the first players won't be out on course until at least 9am Irish time this morning.

Niall Kearney, Cormac Sharvin and Jonathan Caldwell are all part of the field.

Seamus Power and Graeme McDowell are paired together for this week's Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

The Irish duo will face JT Poston and Patton Kizire in the fourballs today.

While Shane Lowry has Ian Poulter for company, they open against Talor Gooch and Max Homa.

SNOOKER

Kyren Wilson got past former number one Ding Junhui last night, by 10 frames to 8, to progress to the second round of the World Snooker Championship.

He joined Jack Lisowski and four-time winner John Higgins in progressing at the Crucible in Sheffield.

Judd Trump takes a 6-3 lead into the deciding session of his first round match with Iran's Hossein Vafaei this evening.

The next stage kicks-off at lunchtime, with Mark Williams beginning his match against fellow Welshman Jackson Page.

RACING

Kilbeggan's two-day Spring Festival gets underway with a seven-race card at 4.15pm.

While there's an eight-race programme at Tipperary with the first going to post at 3.55pm.