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Connacht's Senior Women produced one of their finest performances ever in beating Leinster in their opening game of the Vodafone Women's Interprovincials on Saturday afternoon at the Sportsground. 

Cheered on by nearly one thousand supporters, two tries in the last ten minutes gave them a vital win in the Series and with Munster and Ulster to come, are now in a very strong position to reach the final on the 2nd of September. 

Here is the commentary of that historic win (Their first over Leinster since 2016) with William Davies and former Connacht and Ireland scrum-half Mary Healy.

A goal in the 93rd minute from Francely Lomboto gave Galway United a crucial draw at the RSC in the battle of first and second in the Airtricity League First Division. 

Galway United remain 16 points clear at the top of the table with just nine games remaining. 

United came from behind twice in this game, the first coming after just 22 seconds before Killian Brouder's equaliser only for the visitors to go behind again before Lomboto's goal sent the large travelling support into a frenzy.

Here is the commentary of the game from Jonathan Higgins and Conor O'Keeffe.

Presented by Gerry Murphy

Connacht has named their match day squad to face Leinster in the Vodafone Women's Interprovincials tomorrow afternoon with Head Coach Lyndon Jones going for a young exciting team.

Nicole Fowley will captain the side for the first time, the Sligo native is partnered by Aoibheann Reilly in the half back line.

Karly Tierney, Ivana Kiripati, Laoise McGonagle, Clara Barrett and Kayla Waldron who all recently travelled with the Irish U20 squad to Italy have returned and been named in the match day 23.

The front row sees Lily Brady on either side Grainne O'Loughlin and Shannon Heapes. In the second row, Sonia McDermott is alongside Eva McCormack while Orla Fenton starts in the back row with Tierney and Kiripati.

Joining McGonagle in the back three is Ava Ryder and Meabh Deely while our centre partnership sees Shannon Touhey beside Barrett.

Ahead of the game, William Davies has been speaking to Connacht Head Coach Lyndon Jones.

Connemara Professional Thomas O’Toole will be boxing for the vacant USBF Cruiserweight in Quincy MA tonight when he takes on Scott Lampert at the Veterans Memorial Stadium.  

O'Toole, who is unbeaten as a professional, takes on Lampert who has a 5-8 record but recently boxed for the American Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Heavyweight title. 

It's an interesting match-up considering that Lampert is coming down the weights and O’Toole up the weights for this fight.    

Thomas spoke to John Mulligan from his training Camp in Boston before tonight's Fight.

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All eyes will be on the RSC Tomorrow evening as Galway United face Waterford in the battle of first and second in the Airtricity League First Division.

United holds a sixteen-point lead over Waterford coming into tomorrow night’s game and a large united support is travelling down with one supporter’s bus already sold out and another selling fast.

Ahead of the game, Galway United Manager John Caulfield spoke to John Mulligan

Ireland’s Kicking King, an initiative from Leader Kicking, comes to Dangan Sportsground on August 14th as they continue their search for potential American Football kickers in Ireland.

Leader Kicking was founded by former Connacht and US Rugby player Tadhg Leader in 2022 to create a path for potential Irish punters and kickers. The initiative has looked to select some of Ireland's best GAA, Rugby and soccer talent over this period.

Despite its short existence, the Galway native has already unearthed some serious talent with former underage GAA stars Ronan Patterson and Ross Bolger securing Division 1 scholarships in top US College programs. 

Ireland’s Kicking King is currently touring the country with anyone over the age of 15 of any gender encouraged to attend. Whether you are a talented young person, or you're a 50 year old who has a good strike of a ball, and everyone in between, this event is for you!

The goal is to create a fun environment where people from any sporting background can give kicking American Football a try. 

The top performers from each regional location will compete alongside the best performers from across the country in Energia Stadium on August 25th in front of thousands of fans as we will provide Half Time entertainment for the Global Football showcase which features teams from across the world.

In addition, Ireland’s Kicking King 2023 winner will be flown to America, put up in a hotel, and be given an experience at a Pittsburgh Steelers NFL game.

Despite being on the road for less than a week, Ireland’s Kicking King is taking social media by storm with two of its videos in the past week breaching the magic 1 million views mark.

Tadgh spoke to John about the search for Ireland's Kicking King.

Sarsfields' opening game in the Brooks senior hurling championship was postponed last week after the sudden passing of club legend Jimmy Cooney and now takes place this Saturday (12th August).

Last year's semi-finalists will be looking to atone for their disappointing display against St. Thomas in 2022. But they'll have a challenge to overcome a Tom Monaghan-led Craughwell.

Interestingly, it's the first time the sides have met since the 2015 senior final replay, when the New Inn/Bullaun outfit prevailed 2-10 to 0-14.

A few weeks ago, before Jimmy's passing, at the Brooks Senior Hurling Championship launch in Kenny Park, Sarsfields' Darren Morrissey gave his thoughts to Galway Bay FM’s Tommy Devane.

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Throw-in at Duggan Park, Ballinasloe on Saturday is 5pm.

The WINAHOMEGALWAY intermediate championship meeting of Craughwell and Meelick/Eyrecourt will follow the game at 6.45pm.