Rugby<\/p>\n
Munster are out of the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n
They gave themselves too much to do as the Exeter Chiefs ran out 31-21 in their round of 16 clash this afternoon.<\/p>\n
The hosts led 31-0 at half time before holding on to progress to the last eight at Sandy Park.<\/p>\n
Later, Ulster will look to join Connacht in the next round of the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n
Richie Murphy’s side takes on Ospreys in the final last 16 game of the day.<\/p>\n
The Welsh side came out on top when these teams met in the URC back in February.<\/p>\n
Kick off in Belfast is at 8pm.<\/p>\n
The semi final lineup has been decided in Division One A of the Energia All-Ireland League.<\/p>\n
Terenure took the last spot after beating second-from-bottom UCD 19-15 this afternoon.<\/p>\n
They pipped Cork Con, who missed out despite their 38-point to 12 win over Lansdowne.<\/p>\n
St Mary’s are the new league leaders after besting Clontarf 14-10, with both sides heading for the final four.<\/p>\n
Young Munster got the better of Ballynahinch 22-12, and\u00a0Old Belvedere smashed bottom side Nenagh Ormond by 61 points to 12.<\/p>\n
Soccer<\/p>\n
Manchester City have thrashed Liverpool 4-0 to secure a place in the FA Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland’s hat-trick took Pep Guardiola’s EFL Cup winners back to Wembley, while Mo Salah missed a penalty for the Merseysiders.<\/p>\n
Chelsea are going to join City in the next round as they lead League One’s bottom club Port Vale 5-0 this evening.<\/p>\n
Andrey Santos with the latest goal at Stamford Bridge where the game is heading for full time.<\/p>\n
Southampton continue their magic run in the cup as they welcome Premier League leaders Arsenal in an hour’s time.<\/p>\n
Later tonight, Premier League leaders Arsenal head to Championship team Southampton.<\/p>\n
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The first round of the All Island Cup is underway this evening.<\/p>\n
Champions Wexford look set to open their title defence with a loss.<\/p>\n
Cara Jordan has scored twice for Sligo Rovers who lead the visitors 2-0 at the Showgrounds.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Galway United are 4-0 up on Peamount United with Aoibheann Costello scoring the latest.<\/p>\n
Earlier, last year’s runners-up Bohemians opened their campaign with a 3-1 loss to Glentoran.<\/p>\n
DLR Waves got the better of Lisburn Rangers 1-0.<\/p>\n
Treaty United held on to beat Cliftonville 3-2, and Shelbourne beat Waterford 4-2.<\/p>\n
The final game of the day is into the second half with Athlone Town 1-0 up on Cork City.<\/p>\n
Melissa O’Kane got the goal.<\/p>\n
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Republic of Ireland star Lily Agg is out of this month’s World Cup qualifiers with Poland.<\/p>\n
The Durham County player has posted on social media after rupturing her Achilles in a recent loss to Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old had only recently returned from an ACL injury and is set for another significant spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n
The midfielder said she is not sure how she will be able to come back from this latest blow.<\/p>\n
Carla Ward’s side are due to play the Poles in back to back games starting away in Gdansk on April 14th.<\/p>\n
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Drogheda United say Shane Farrell is out of hospital after collapsing mid-game on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The midfielder was taken for medical treatment after a clash of heads during the goalless draw with Bohemians.<\/p>\n
Drogs say he is now back home and will continue to be monitored by the club’s medical staff.<\/p>\n
Sailing<\/p>\n
Eve McMahon has claimed gold in the I-L-C-A 6 dinghy class at the Princesa Sofia Regatta in Mallorca this afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Howth sailor edged Britain’s Daisy Collingridge to the top of the podium in today’s final round.<\/p>\n
Speaking to in-house media after the race, McMahon knew she’d need a stellar performance to see out the win.<\/p>\n
Golf<\/p>\n
Leona Maguire is in a tie for second ahead of the third round of the Aramco Championship on the LPGA.<\/p>\n
She is three under par for the week and five shots off the lead in Nevada.<\/p>\n
The Cavan woman will tee off her third round around 9.20pm tonight.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, fellow Irish stars Lauren Walsh and Anna Foster will tee off from six over and four over par respectively.<\/p>\n
American Lauren Coughlin has the lead on eight under par.<\/p>\n
Boxing<\/p>\n
Chantelle Cameron has said she will not be the one to fight Katie Taylor in her retirement match.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old Bray native will call time on her decorated career with one final fight in Dublin this summer.<\/p>\n
The British boxer is the only woman to have beaten Taylor as a pro before the Irish woman got her win back in the rematch.<\/p>\n
A third fight never materialised, with Cameron claiming Taylor has rejected the trilogy for her swansong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby Munster are out of the Challenge Cup. They gave themselves too much to do as the Exeter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-382795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}