Thursday Morning: Kildare Minor Ladies Footballers Lose To Galway In All-Ireland 'A' Semi-Final

Galway won, 2-10 to 0-11

GAELIC GAMES

Kildare minor ladies footballers lost to Galway yesterday evening, in the All-Ireland 'A' semi-final.

The game finished 2-10 to 11 points.

We will review the game on this morning's 'Kildare Today' from 10.50am.

A nice touch by Darren Kendrick & his management team that greeted the players in the dressing room prior to this evenings @ZuCarIreland @LadiesFootball All Ireland Minor semi final v @GalwayLgfa@KfmSport @LeinsterLGFA @KildareNatSport

Video with thanks to Barbara Sargent. pic.twitter.com/9IF8LkvTJT

— Kildare LGFA (@KildareLGFA1) July 20, 2022

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Declan Bonner has stepped down as manager of the Donegal senior footballers.

The Na Rossa clubman spent five years in charge during his second stint at the helm, winning two Ulster titles.

Longford are also on the lookout for a new manager after Billy O'Loughlin's departure was confirmed last night.

ATHLETICS

Rhasidat (pr: Rasheeda) Adeleke just missed out on a place in the women's 400 metres final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon overnight.

The 19 year old finished fourth in her semi final in a time of 50.87 seconds.

Mark English is into the semi finals of the men's 800 metres after finishing third in his heat.

English clocked his second fastest ever time - 1 minute 44.76 seconds.

Chris O'Donnell ended seventh in his 400 metres semi final, posting a time of 46.01 seconds.

SOCCER

England were given a real fright en route to reaching the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2022.

They needed extra-time, and a long-range strike from Georgia Stanway to beat Spain 2-1 in their quarter-final in Brighton.

The hosts will play either Sweden or Belgium on Tuesday.


There's another quarter-final in the other half of the draw tonight.

Neighbours Germany and Austria meet at the Brentford Community Stadium, where kick-off is at 8pm.


St Pat's and Sligo Rovers are both in European action tonight.

Pat's take on Slovenia's Mura at Richmond Park in the second round of Europa Conference League qualifying.

In the same competition, Sligo Rovers are in Scotland for a meeting with Motherwell.

Both games kick off at 7.45pm.

GOLF

Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow are in the field today for the Evian Championship in France, one of the five women's major championships.

Padraig Harrington begins his quest to win a second Seniors Major of the year this morning.

His first round of the Senior Open at Gleneagles gets underway at 9.20am.


On the DP World Tour, the likes of Paul Dunne, Niall Kearney and Jonathan Caldwell are among the field for the Cazoo Classic in Southport.

CYCLING

Jonas Vingegaard takes a 2 minute 18 second lead into today's final mountain stage of the Tour de France.

The peloton must tackle two hors categorie climbs before the finish atop Hautacam.

RACING

There's a seven-race card at Limerick this evening, with the first going to post at 5.15pm.

While the summer series at Leopardstown continues, with a seven-race card underway at 5.30pm.