Monday Morning Sport: Naas Win Senior Hurling Championship Title

Caragh and Ellistown progress in the Leinster championships

GAA

Naas are Kildare Senior hurling champions for the 6th time in a row, and
completed the hurling/football senior double.

In yesterday's final, they beat Maynooth by 3-20 to 0-12 to clinch their
12th senior title overall.

Naas will play Wexford champions St Martin's in Manguard Park in a
fortnight.

Maynooth have won 6 senior titles, the last one in 1939.  

Their top scorer yesterday was David Qualter with 8 points: five from frees.

***Kfm's county final commentary was in association with Typo Coffee,
Moyglare Rd. Maynooth.

The last club to achieve the Kildare  hurling 6 in a row, previous to Naas
doing it yesterday, is Clane.

Clane is the most successful team in the tournament's history, having won it
16 times, but the last time was in 1922.  

Clane completed a 9 in a row between 1903 and 1911. Their 6 in a row was
from 1914 to 1919 inclusive.

On Saturday in the Leinster Intermediate Club football championship, Caragh
beat  Meath Hill in Manguard Park, Hawkfield  by 0-11 to 0-6 

In the quarter final, Caragh will play Kilkenny's Dicksboro in Freshford at
1.30pm next Saturday

***Kfm  had live updates in association with The Power Comm Group, sponsors
of Caragh GAA  

In the Leinster club Junior championship, Ellistown  beat Castletown,
Finea, Coole, Whitehall in Kinnegad 0-5 points to 0-4 

***Kfm 's coverage was in association with the Harp Bar, Kildare Town 

Ellistown play Grattan Og of Longford next Saturday in Manguard Park at
3.30.  

Originally fixed for 2pm, the change of time to 3.30 is to avoid a
fixture clash, because Moorefield hurlers are down to play Castletown of
Laois in the Junior championship also on  Saturday in Hawkfield  at 1.30   

This morning's Kildare Today at 10.45, and this evening's Kildare
Scoreboard from 6.25 will review the three games, including hurling and
football manager interviews  

SOCCER

Premier League results from yesterday:

Spurs beat Aston Villa 4-1

Manchester Utd and Chelsea  also finished 1 all 

RUGBY 

England prop Joe Marler announced his retirement from international rugby
yesterday.

The 34-year-old retires from international rugby with 95 caps, a World Cup
runners-up medal from 2019 and three Six Nations titles. 

35 years old, Peter O'Mahony joined the Ireland squad in Portugal
yesterday morning, ahead of next Friday's test against the All Blacks.

Up to Saturday's first half appearance against an All Blacks 15, the former
Ireland captain had only played 20 minutes this season.  He's now expected
to play against the All Blacks.

The All Blacks will be without Beauden Barrett and Codie Taylor after
suffering head injuries in Saturday's win over England.

Reminder:  Monday morning 10.40am Kildare GAA review.  6.25pm, Kildare
Scoreboard reviews all the weekend Kildare Sport