Rugby<\/p>\n
It is Ireland 12, Australia 24 in their Nations Championship clash in Sydney.<\/p>\n
Cian Prendergast and Josh van der Flier have both dotted down for the tourists, but they’ve already shipped four tries from the Wallabies.<\/p>\n
Head coach Andy Farrell was forced into a late change ahead of the game, with Jimmy O’Brien brought onto the wing in place of Rob Baloucoune.<\/p>\n
Earlier, New Zealand got the better of France in a thrilling clash in Christchurch, winning 34-32.<\/p>\n
Soccer<\/p>\n
Holders Argentina avoided one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history to progress to the last-16.<\/p>\n
They needed extra time to beat Pico Lopes’ Cape Verde 3-2.<\/p>\n
Mo Salah was in tears after he helped Egypt beat Australia.<\/p>\n
The Liverpool legend scored in the penalty shoot-out which his side won 4-2 after the game had finished 1-1.<\/p>\n
And Colombia advanced with a 1-0 win over Ghana in Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Co-hosts Canada will face Morocco as the last-16 round kicks off this evening, and France take on Paraguay overnight.<\/p>\n
Sligo Rovers are bottom of the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division this morning.<\/p>\n
Jack Byrne and Graham Burke hit the net as defending champions Shamrock Rovers beat the Bit O’Red 2-1 last night.<\/p>\n
The pressure has mounted on Derry City manager Tiernan Lynch after their 4-2 loss to Waterford.<\/p>\n
Bohemians won 2-0 at Drogheda United, St Pat’s hammered Galway United 3-0, and Shelbourne got a 2-1 win over Dundalk.<\/p>\n
GAA<\/p>\n
Cork will need to beat Galway in the Championship for the first time since 2008 if they are to reach a third successive All-Ireland Hurling final this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Rebels boss Ben O’Connor has welcomed the fit-again Tim O’Mahony and Tommy O’Connell into his midfield, but William Buckley has to be content with a place on the bench.<\/p>\n
Leinster champions Galway are aiming to reach their first decider in eight seasons, but are without injured forward Rory Burke.<\/p>\n
Waterford are without the suspended Niamh Rockett for their All-Ireland Camogie quarter-final against Kilkenny in the opening game at Croke Park.<\/p>\n
Kilkenny come into that last-eight clash having won all five matches to top Group Two.<\/p>\n
Three of the four All-Ireland Ladies Football quarter-finals are down for decision later.<\/p>\n
Cork make the trip to defending champions Dublin in the evening throw-in.<\/p>\n
Before that, Armagh welcome Kildare to the Athletic Grounds, and Kerry and Meath clash in Tralee.<\/p>\n
Athletics<\/p>\n
Rhasidat Adeleke had a disappointing return to 400-metres action overnight.<\/p>\n
The Tallaght sprinter came ninth at the Diamond League meeting in Oregon.<\/p>\n
Her time of 52.26 seconds is just over a second slower than the standard needed to qualify for next month’s European Championships in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
Golf<\/p>\n
Padraig Harrington is two shots off the lead ahead of Day Three at the US Senior Open in Ohio.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner is second on four-under-par, with the American George McNeill leading the way on six-under.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Anna Foster is tied for third heading into her third round at the Hulencourt Women’s Open.<\/p>\n
The Dublin golfer shot a second-round 69 in Belgium on Friday, and will resume from four-under this afternoon.<\/p>\n
She is five shots off the lead, with Spain’s Carolina Chacarra out in front on nine-under.<\/p>\n
Tennis<\/p>\n
Wimbledon favourites are going strong at the All England Club with Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka all safely through to the fourth round.<\/p>\n
Serena and Venus Williams are on the Order of Play for the women’s doubles today – despite doubts over Serena’s fitness.<\/p>\n
Defending women’s champion Iga Swiatek opens up play on Centre Court against Alexandra Eala.<\/p>\n
While there is an intriguing clash between Matteo Berrettini and Grigor Dimitrov in the men’s draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby It is Ireland 12, Australia 24 in their Nations Championship clash in Sydney. Cian Prendergast and Josh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-532573","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\/532573","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=532573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}