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Action continues tonight in the UPMC Senior Hurling Championship

GAELIC GAMES

In Last night’s hurling fixtures:

UPMC Intermediate Hurling Championship

Maynooth 1-23 V Coill Dubh 1-13

St. Laurence’s 2-16 V Ardclough 1-10

Éire Óg Corra Choill 0-17 V Naas 3-16

UPMC Junior Hurling Championship Group A

Clane 1-12 V Wolfe Tones 3-15

Round Towers 0-2 V Cappagh 6-14

UPMC Junior Hurling Championship Group B

Kilcock 1-13 V Naas 0-16

Confey 2-20 V Moorefield 0-8

In tonight's fixtures:

2023 UPMC Senior B Hurling Championship Round 4

• Naas v Celbridge, Venue Kill 7:00 PM

• Moorefield v Kilcock, Venue Rathcoffey 7:00 PM

• Broadford v Leixlip, Venue Maynooth 7:00 PM

Round 3

• Confey GAA v Clane, Venue Manguard Park Pitch 2 7:30 PM

• Celbridge v Maynooth, Venue Manguard Park Pitch 1 7:30 PM

2023 Tom Cross Transport Junior Football Championship Group A

• Round 5, Castlemitchell GFC v Ballykelly Moorefield 7:30 PM

GOLF

Play is just getting underway on the opening day of the Women's Irish Open.

Sara Byrne and Beth Coulter are among the Irish players in the early groups.

Shortly after 9am, all eyes will be on Leona Maguire as she tees off alongside defending champion Klara Spilkova and Clare amateur Aine Donegan.

Elsewhere, Stephanie Meadow plays at the Portland Classic on the LPGA Tour.

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The European Ryder Cup qualification process concludes this week with the European Masters in Switzerland.

Padraig Harrington and Tom McKibbin are already out on course and are both one-under-par in the early stages of their rounds.

Three players share the early lead on two-under.

John Murphy tees off this afternoon.


SOCCER

Republic of Ireland international John Egan missed a penalty as Sheffield United exited the EFL Cup last night.

The Blades suffered defeat on spot kicks to Lincoln City, after a goalless draw at Bramall Lane.

Chelsea and Everton won by two goals to one against Wimbledon and Doncaster respectively.

Elsewhere, Blackburn thumped Harrogate 8-nil, while Burnley were 1-nil winners at Nottingham Forest.

In the third round draw, Manchester City have been drawn away to Newcastle while holders Manchester United will play Crystal Palace.

Liverpool are set to face Leicester while Arsenal will meet Brentford.

Among the other ties will be Chelsea's clash with Brighton, with Aston Villa set to go up against Everton.

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The draw for the group stage of the Champions League takes place later today.

Rangers won't be in the hat, after a 5-1 hammering at the hands of PSV in the second leg of their playoff round tie last night.

The Dutch side were 7-3 winners on aggregate.

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Aberdeen will look to make their way through to the group stage of the Europa League tonight.

The Scottish Premiership club take on Hacken of Sweden, with the tie level at two goals apiece after the first leg.

In the Conference League, Aston Villa take a 5-nil lead into the second leg of their tie with Hibernian.

Hearts trail PAOK 2-1 ahead of their meeting in Greece.

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Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny is due to name his squad for the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifiers today.

Aaron Connolly could be in line for a recall, having scored three times for Hull so far this season.

Ireland are away to France next Thursday before a meeting with the Netherlands three days later in Dublin.


TENNIS

World number ten Frances Tiafoe is through to the third round at the US Open.

He was a winner in straight sets over Sebastien Ofner.

Andy Murray is among those in action later - he faces Grigor Dimitrov.

In the women's draw, Caroline Wozniacki secured an impressive win in straight sets over Petra Kvitova.

This evening, fifth seed Ons Jabeur goes up against Linda Noskova.


CYCLING

Remco Evenepoel of Belgium takes an 11 second lead into stage six of the Vuelta Espana today.

Enric Mas is second ahead of the 186.5-kilometre route, starting at Morella.


RACING

There's an eight-race card at Navan today.

The first is off at 25-to-2.