Soccer<\/p>\n
The Republic of Ireland women’s team lead Poland 1-0 at half-time in their World Cup qualifying campaign this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Marissa Sheva opened the scoring right before the teams went in for the break.<\/p>\n
Denise O’Sullivan was given a yellow card which means she will miss the next game against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Later, the Dutch face off with fellow Group 2 sides France from 8:10pm.<\/p>\n
Leeds are 2-0 up on Wolves in the Premier League and look set to take a step closer to safety.<\/p>\n
James Justin and Noah Okafor with the goals.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Bournemouth are 1-0 up away at Newcastle thanks to a Marcus Tavernier strike.<\/p>\n
Brentford and Fulham played out a 0-0 draw in the first game of the day.<\/p>\n
Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher kept his 9th clean sheet of the season in that one.<\/p>\n
Tottenham can send Wolves down if they better their result when they take on Brighton at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n
Today’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 take on Italy in round 2 of the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Scott Bemand’s side will be looking to put their opening day defeat to England behind them.<\/p>\n
Kick-off is at 5:40pm.<\/p>\n
In the early game, England thrashed Scotland by 84 points to 7.<\/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 this 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
Later, Dublin make the trip to Offaly and Kildare welcome Wexford for their opening games of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Both throw in at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n
Clare and Waterford will need extra time to see who will progress to the Munster camogie semi finals.<\/p>\n
Their quarter final has finished level 2-12 to 18 points after a ding dong battle in Ennis.<\/p>\n
That extra time period is now underway.<\/p>\n
While in the Leinster Championship, there’s the quarter-final meeting of Offaly and Dublin which is just underway in Tullamore.<\/p>\n
Dublin GAA say they have been unsuccessful in their attempts to see Ger Brennan’s ban overturned.<\/p>\n
The football boss was suspended for 12 weeks following his clash with a member of Galway’s backroom staff during a league game last month.<\/p>\n
He appealed the case to the Disputes Resolution Authority who met this morning but ruled against the All Ireland winner.<\/p>\n
It means Dean Rock will deputise in his place for tomorrow’s Leinster football game against Wicklow.<\/p>\n
Brennan will also miss the opening two games of their Sam Maguire campaign.<\/p>\n
Snooker<\/p>\n
It is the opening day of the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen is 5 frames to 3 down to China’s Zhang Anda in their clash which will resume tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Defending world champion Zhao Xintong is 5-4 up on Liam Highfield.<\/p>\n
On the table, Mark Williams leads Polish whiz kid Antoni Kowalski 2-1 early on their first round tie at the Crucible.<\/p>\n
The first to 10 frames will progress to the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soccer The Republic of Ireland women’s team lead Poland 1-0 at half-time in their World Cup qualifying campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-405384","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\/405384","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=405384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}