Brentford and Fulham<\/a> have played out a 0-0 draw in Saturday’s first game in the Premier League.<\/p>\nRepublic of Ireland goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher kept his 9th clean sheet of the season in that one.<\/p>\n
Two games are just underway with Wolves taking on Leeds at Elland Road while Newcastle are taking on Bournemouth.<\/p>\n
Tottenham can send Wolves down if they better their result when they take on Brighton at 5:30pm..<\/p>\n
Saturday’s late game sees the chase for Champions League football continue at Stamford Bridge as Manchester United face Chelsea – who’ve lost their last three top flight matches.<\/p>\n
Rugby<\/p>\n
Ireland look to bounce back from opening-day defeat in the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Scott Bemand’s side host Italy at Dexcom Stadium, with three changes from the side that lost to England last weekend.<\/p>\n
Ruth Campbell and Nancy McGillivray are promoted from the bench, while there’s an international debut for winger Robyn O’Connor.<\/p>\n
Kick-off is at 5:40pm.<\/p>\n
In the early game, England lead Scotland 49-7 at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n
In the URC, Connacht came from behind to beat the Stormers by 33 points to 24 in South Africa.<\/p>\n
John Devine scored his first try for the visitors while Sean Naughton scored the clincher late on.<\/p>\n
Meanhile this evening, Munster are in Italy to face Benetton from 7.45pm.<\/p>\n
GAA<\/p>\n
Galway and Kilkenny is the pick of today’s Leinster Hurling Championship action, which gets up and running on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Tribesmen were emphatic 36 points to 17 winners over the Cats in their league encounter last month.<\/p>\n
Throw-in at Pearse Stadium is at 4:30pm.<\/p>\n
And fresh from their Division 1B triumph last weekend, Clare are getting their Munster Camogie tilt underway on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
They are taking on 1A runners up Waterford and the Deise lead that one by 9 points to 1-5 so far.<\/p>\n
While in the Leinster Championship, there’s the quarter-final meeting of Offaly and Dublin in Tullamore at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland women’s team are looking to win back-to-back games in their World Cup qualifying campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-405297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405297","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=405297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}