Ireland warm up for Euro qualifiers

IRELAND’S basketball teams begin the countdown to European Championship action tonight with the first in a series of friendlies.

The men’s squad are in Cork for a four-nation tournament involving England, Denmark and Turkey, opening with an appetising clash against the English at Neptune Stadium tonight.

The senior women’s side hosts Norway for two games at the University of Limerick on September 12 and in the Mercy, Waterford the following night