Naas Will Meet The Winners Of Celbridge And Raheens In The Minor A FC Final

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are paired with twin brothers for today's opening round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

GAA

The results of the Minor A Football Championship Semi- Final last night;

Naas 2-13 beat Maynooth 1-5.

Tonight, in the other Minor A Semi- Final;

Celbridge play Raheens in Manguard plus Hawkfield.

Throw in is at 7.30pm on pitch 1.

GOLF

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are paired with twin brothers for today's opening round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.

McIlroy plays alongside Nicolai Hojgaard , while Lowry is partnered with last week's French Open runner-up, Rasmus Hojgaard.

Both pairings play their opening rounds at Carnoustie from 9am this morning.

Padraig Harrington also plays Carnoustie, teeing off at 10.50.

While Jonathan Caldwell is among the later starters at Kingsbarns.

St Andrews is the other course used for the tournament, a venue where McIlroy saw the Open Championship slip from his grasp in the summer.
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Seamus Power is in the line up for the Sanderson Farms Championship, which gets underway on the PGA Tour in Mississippi later.

The Waterford golfer tees off at quarter-to-2, Irish time.

And Texas is the latest stop on the LPGA Tour, where Stephanie Meadow is part of the field for The Ascendant.


SOCCER

Katie McCabe will be playing group stage football in the Women's Champions League.

The Republic of Ireland captain played the full 90-minutes as Arsenal won 1-nil away to Ajax in the second leg of their playoff to secure a 3-2 aggregate victory.

The draw for the group stage will be made on Monday.


SNOOKER

Antrim duo Mark Allen and Jordan Brown are in second round action at the British Open this afternoon.

Allen faces world number 33, Gary Wilson.

And Brown faces a stern test in the form of Yan Bingtao.

RACING

There's a seven race card over jumps at Clonmel this afternoon, with the first off at 1.15.