Monday Sport, with Joe Mallon Motors, Sallins Rd., Naas

Kildare women footballers are into the All Ireland Intermediate football final.

Limerick have won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship for a fourth consecutive year.

Despite being down 3 points at half time, they added 21 2nd half points to win by nine 30-points to 2-15 in a spectacular 2nd half display.

The win means John Kiely's side become just the fourth in history to complete a four-in-a-row and is their fifth title in 6 years.

Cork in the 40’s and Kilkenny in the noughies the only two others to do the four-in-a-row

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Kildare women footballers are into the All Ireland Intermediate football final, following yesterday’s 1-4 to 0-2 win over Wexfordin Parnell Park.

Nessa Dooley with the goal 23 minutes into the 2nd half.

The final will be a repeat of the League final, also played in Parnell Park, and won by Kildare who’ve now only lost once in 16 games

They will play Clare in the final

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UPMC Senior Hurling Championship, Group A, Round 1

Naas 0-24 Coill Dubh 1-11

Éire Óg Corra Choill 2-16 Ardclough 2-11

Group B Round 1

Maynooth 5-20 Confey 0-5

Celbridge 2-12 Clane 1-10

UPMC Senior B Hurling Championship, Round 2

Naas 2-14 Broadford 1-14

Leixlip 1-24 Moorefield 0-5

This morning’s Kildare Today, at 10.40 and this evening’s Kildare Scoreboard from 6.30pm will review all the Kildare weekend sport.

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SOCCER

Reigning FAI Cup champions Derry City beat Athlone Town 3 nil

Dundalk beat Shamrock Rovers 1 nil

St. Pat's bat Longford Town 2-1
 

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OPEN GOLF

American Brian Harman has won The Open Championship at Hoylake, his first ever Major.

He carded a final round of 70 to finish on 13-under-par and win by six shots.

Rory McIlroy finished on 6-under-par after a 68, in a tie for 6th.

Padraig Harrington's 74 saw him finish on 8-over-par.

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the Hungarian Grand Prix.

It was his seventh consecutive win.

The double world champion crossed the line 33.7 seconds clear of McLaren’s Lando Norris with Sergio Perez third for Red Bull.

Lewis Hamilton finished fourth

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Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France for a second consecutive year.

Vingegaard won by seven minutes and 29 seconds from two-time winner Tadej Pogacar, with Britain's Adam Yates in third

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Yesterday's card at The Curragh was cancelled.

Heavy rain overnight left parts of the track waterlogged.

The card has been rescheduled for Sunday August 13th.

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Finally, a reminder that: This morning’s Kildare Today, at 10.40 and this evening’s Kildare Scoreboard from 6.30pm will review all the Kildare weekend sport.