Golf<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy has won golf’s Irish Open for the second time.<\/p>\n
The world number two has beaten Joakim Lagergren on a playoff at the K Club.<\/p>\n
It is McIlroy’s 20th victory on the DP World Tour and his first win at the Irish Open since 2016.<\/p>\n
Shane Lowry ended up in 15th place on 7-under-par with Tom McKibbin a shot further back.<\/p>\n
Rugby<\/p>\n
Ireland have finished second in Pool C at the Women’s Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n
Scott Bemand’s side have lost 40-0 to New Zealand in Brighton.<\/p>\n
Braxton Sorensen-McGee scored a hat-trick for the Black Ferns.<\/p>\n
Soccer<\/p>\n
Shamrock Rovers’ Josh Honohan has joined the Republic of Ireland squad ahead of their World Cup qualifier at Armenia.<\/p>\n
Sammie Szmodics will miss Tuesday’s game in Yerevan due to injury and he’s gone back to his club Ipswich.<\/p>\n
Heimir Hallgrimsson’s team will fly out later today as they look to build on last night’s draw with Hungary.<\/p>\n
Everton have started the new Women’s Super League season with a 4-1 victory over rivals Liverpool at Anfield.<\/p>\n
There was also a convincing win for Manchester United – who eased past Leicester 4-0.<\/p>\n
Tottenham edged London rivals West Ham 1-0, while it finished goalless between Brighton and Aston Villa.<\/p>\n
Tennis<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner believes his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz will drive them both to new heights in tennis.<\/p>\n
They meet in tonight’s US Open men’s final, with the Spaniard holding the edge in their head-to-head record.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz has won nine of their 14 meetings.<\/p>\n
Sinner’s not surprised they’re going up against each other for another Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n
Racing<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen has won Formula One’s Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The Red Bull driver finished clear of McLaren pair Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
His 66th career race victory also sees him become the first person to win from pole position in Monza since 2019.<\/p>\n
GAA<\/p>\n
Ballygunner have won their 12th consecutive Waterford Senior Hurling title.<\/p>\n
Pauric Mahony scored 11-points as they overcame Mount Sion by 22-points in the final.<\/p>\n
Dessie Hutchinson added 1-6, and Ballygunner are now uneaten in 66 games in the Waterford Championship.<\/p>\n
Cycling<\/p>\n
Two-time Olympic gold medallist Geraint Thomas has brought his cycling career to an emotional end at the Tour of Britain in his hometown of Cardiff.<\/p>\n
The 2018 Tour de France champion was given a guard of honour ahead of the final stage at the National Velodrome of Wales in Newport – which is named after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf Rory McIlroy has won golf’s Irish Open for the second time. The world number two has beaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","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=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}