The Nire (Waterford) 1-11 Ballylanders (Limerick) 0-7

Moorefield 1-15 Sarsfields 1-06 Moorefield cruised to victory and retained their Kildare SFC crown after a dominant display in a largely one-sided replay at St Conleth’s Park.

The Nire 0-11 Stradbally 0-6

Sarsfields 1-13 Moorefield 0-16

Dublin 3-16 Kildare 1-12

The Republic of Ireland senior women’s team were beaten 4-0 by France in Guingamp in their penultimate European Championship Group 4 qualifying game on Saturday night.

Munster and All-Ireland champions Clare cruised into a second successive provincial intermediate hurling decider at Semple Stadium yesterday.

The Ireland Women’s team crashed to defeat against Algarve Cup hosts Portugal in Faro last night.

ST BRIGID’S manager Mark Byrne conceded he thought his team were dead and buried at half-time of this Dublin SFC semi-final on Saturday.

A LORCAN DOLAN goal two minutes from time secured a semi-final spot for Moate CS at Stillorgan yesterday.

Laois Under-21 football manager Sean Dempsey has kept faith with the 15 players that beat Mayo in the recent semi-final for tomorrow night's Cadbury's All-Ireland football final against Cork (Semple Stadium, throw-in 7pm).

Stradbally 0-6 Nire 0-6

Rhode (Offaly) 1-6 Stradbally (Laois) 0-6

The Republic of Ireland schools got their girls international programme off to a flying start with a 2-1 win over Scotland at the Ballymena International under 15 tournament in Northern Ireland.