Galway have beaten Kildare 3-21 to 0-17 at Pearse Stadium in Salthill.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Cork beat Meath in the opening round of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.<\/p>\n
The final score was Cork 0-30 to Meath’s 1-24 (27).<\/p>\n
Earlier on, defending champions Kerry suffered an opening day defeat to Donegal.<\/p>\n
The Kingdom will have another chance at remaining in the competition, facing another fellow losing side in Round 2B.<\/p>\n
Last year’s runners up defeated Kerry 2-20 to 16 points, with Ciaran Moore and Shea Malone grabbing the goals for Jim McGuinness’s side.<\/p>\n
Kilkenny have eased past Limerick in the All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.<\/p>\n
Aoife Prendergast’s haul of two goals and eight points helped them cruise to a 3-19 to 1-11 win at Nowlan Park.<\/p>\n
Earlier on, Clare defeated Dublin.<\/p>\n
A brace of goals from the Banner’s Lorna McNamara saw them run out 2-16 to 3-10 winners.<\/p>\n
Soccer<\/p>\n
Hull have been promoted to the Premier League in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n
A late winner from Oli McBurnie saw the Tigers beat Middlesborough 1-0 at Wembley.<\/p>\n
Celtic have added another title to their trophy cabinet.<\/p>\n
Martin O’Neill’s side have beaten Dunfermline 3-1 in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park.<\/p>\n
Goals from Daizen Maeda, Arne Engels and Kelechi Iheanacho have them on course for a double, just a week after they won the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n
Barcelona have won a fourth Women’s Champions League title.<\/p>\n
They beat Lyon 4-0 in Norway.<\/p>\n
Ewa Pajor and Salma Paralluelo both bagged two goals apiece.<\/p>\n
Rugby<\/p>\n
It was heartbreak for Leinster in Bilbao, as they suffered a fifth consecutive loss in a Champions Cup final.<\/p>\n
They were defeated by Bordeaux Begles 41-19, who made it back-to-back wins in the competition.<\/p>\n
The Blues trailed by four tries at the break, and weren’t able to recover from the early onslaught from their French opponents despite a much improved second half.<\/p>\n
Head coach Leo Cullen said today’s Champions Cup final loss was a tough result to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway have beaten Kildare 3-21 to 0-17 at Pearse Stadium in Salthill. Earlier, Cork beat Meath in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-464057","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\/464057","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=464057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}