Monday Morning: Kildare Women's Footballers Are Leinster Intermediate Champions

Senior men's footballers are into the Leinster final

GAELIC GAMES

Kildare women's footballers are Leinster champions!

The TG4 Leinster Intermediate Championship Final finished Kildare 3-7, Wexford 1-7.

KFM's Tara Byrne, spoke with captain Grace Clifford after the win:

Lara Curran with the 🚀pic.twitter.com/kNKPTASFxI

— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) May 15, 2022

Kildare senior men's footballers are into the Leinster final.

The Lillies beat Westmeath 1-21 to 2-15, yesterday in Croke Park.

KFM spoke with manager Glenn Ryan after the win: 

Kildare's camogie players lost out to Meath, in the Leinster Intermediate Camogie Championship Final yesterday.

The game finished Meath 1-14 Kildare 2-9.

Manager Joe Quaid gave his view after the loss:

On Saturday Kildare men's U20 footballers lost to Tyrone, in the Eirgrid All Ireland U20 Football Final.

The game finished Tyrone 1-20 Kildare 1-14.

Here's manager Brian Flanagan's post-match reaction:

What a welcome back for the Kildare U20 Football Team, after a brave and courageous display against a terrific Tyrone team in the All Ireland. pic.twitter.com/pctuROfu8y

— Kildare GAA (@KildareGAA) May 14, 2022

Elsewhere on Saturday, Kildare hurlers beat Sligo 2-23 to 2-14 in the fifth round of the Cristy Ring Cup.

Here's manager David Herity:

SOCCER 

Manchester City remain in control of the Premier League title race.

They came from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw with West Ham yesterday.

The point keeps Pep Guardiola's side top - four points clear of Liverpool, who have a game in hand.

At the other end, Everton missed the chance to secure their status following a 3-2 loss to Brentford.

Leeds moved out of the bottom three thanks to a 1-1 draw with Brighton, with Burnley now 18th after their 1-0 loss to Tottenham.

This evening, it's Newcastle at home to Arsenal from 8pm.

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Treaty United play Longford Town in tonight's only game in the SSE Airtricity League First Division.

Kick off at Markets Field is at 7.45pm.

GOLF

Padraig Harrington's bid for a first Champions Tour major fell short last night.

The Dubliner ended in second at the Regions Tradition tournament in Alabama.

Steve Stricker collected the title, finishing six shots ahead of Harrington on 21-under-par.

Both players carded final rounds of four-under-par 68.

KH Lee took the honours in the Byron Nelson Championship last night.

The South Korean finished on 26-under-par - one shot better than Jordan Spieth.

Seamus Power finished in a tie for 17th on 18-under.

Minjee Lee's final round of two-under-par 70 was enough to clinch the LPGA Tour's Founders Cup.

The Australian finished on 19-under overall - two shots clear of Lexi Thompson in second.

Stephanie Meadow ended in a tie for 68th on one-over.

BOXING

4 Irish boxers are in quarter final action at the Women's World Boxing Championships this afternoon.

Michaela Walsh takes on Karina Ibragimova of Kazakhstan in the last 8 of the featherweight tournament.

Amy Broadhurst is one win away from a medal - she faces Serbia's Jelena Janicijevic in the Light Welterweight division.

Roscommon middleweight Lisa O'Rouke comes up against Armenian Ani Hovsepyan and Carly McNaul takes on Caroline De Almedia of Brazil in the last 8 of the Flyweight competition.

RACING

There's racing at Killarney this evening, where the first is off at 5pm.