Thurs Lunch Sport Update

Ireland Rowing Gold & Kildare Ladies U16A Champions

Ireland is celebrating a first gold medal at the Olympics since 2012.

Skibbereen rowers Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy have been crowned lightweight doubles sculls champions in Tokyo.

They finished this morning's race strongly to come in ahead of Germany in the gold medal position.

It follows Paul and his brother Gary securing silver in the boat in Rio.

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Sanita Puspure suffered disappointment in the women's single sculls.

The two-time World champion missed out on a place in the final after finishing fifth in her semi final.

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Swimmer Shane Ryan has missed out on a semi-final place, but set a new Irish record in the 100 metre Butterfly.

The 27-year-old was fourth in his heat

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Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy have ground to make up after the first round of the golf at the Olympics.

McIlroy has signed for a two-under-par round of 69 while Lowry will be one-under into day two.

Austria's Sepp Straka has a one-shot lead at eight-under.

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Annalise Murphy placed first and second in her races in the Lasar Radial and is up to 14th place ahead of the final two qualifying races tomorrow.

While the 49er pair of Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove sit in seventh place in their event.

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Kildare are 2021 Leinster Ladies Football  U 16 A champions.

Captained in last nights final, in Kinnegad, by St. Laurence’s Eimear Glancy, and managed by Seán Reynolds, Kildare beat Meath by 3-18 to 2-6

They could have won by a bigger margin only for the Meath keeper pulling off some great saves.

Kilcullen’s Edwina Birchall won the Player of the Match award but every Kildare player was exceptional.

This morning’s Kildare Today interviews with manager Sean Reynolds and team captain Eimear Glancy are podcast in the Sport section of our website www.kfmradio.com

Celbridge and Maynooth will meet in the 2020 Manguard Plus Minor Football A Championship Final.

In last night’s Semi Finals

Naas  0-8 V Celbridge  0-12 

Clane 0-14 V Maynooth 1-13  

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Dundalk manager Vinny Perth insists they won't sit back in tonight's Europa Conference League second-round qualifier second-leg at Levadia Tallinn.

It's 2-all after last week's first leg at Tallaght Stadium.


Bohemians are 1-nil up against Dudelange of Luxembourg ahead of their second leg at the Aviva Stadium.

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Today's feature at the Galway Races is the Guinness Galway Handicap Hurdle at 6.15pm.

Magic Tricks and Winner Takes All are the leading contenders.