Celtic have failed to reach the Champions League group stage after a 2-1 second leg defeat to AEK Athens in the third qualifying round. Scott Sinclair pulled one back for Celtic to set up a dramatic finish but they were unable to find a late equaliser and exit the competition 3-2 on aggregate.
Ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland hurling final, Seán Moran writes that Galway and Limerick are leading the way in hurling's latest uprising. "Sunday's Galway-Limerick final becomes the first time in 22 years that none of the Big Three have contested an All-Ireland for two years running," he explains. The big three being Kilkenny, Tipperary and Cork. Micheál Donoghue is hoping Galway's big-day experience proves a trump card, they've contested four finals since Limerick's last appearance in one in 2007. While former Kildare hurler, David Reidy is delighted to be back in the Treaty squad as they push for glory.
Darragh Ó Sé believes that Dublin's mastery of the basic skills make their quest for four-in-a-row a formality: "Look at how each of them has improved their basic skills in the time Gavin has had them. Remember people used to question Kilkenny's kicking style? Not any more. Or that Dean Rock was only a man for the frees? Not any more. You could go on."
England cricketer Ben Stokes has been recalled to England's Test squad just hours after he was cleared of affray. Earlier this year Steve Smith and David Warner were banned from the international game by their board for 12 months for overseeing ball tampering. Does that seem so much worse than what happened in Bristol, with one man left with a fractured eye socket and another with concussion?
On day two of the 2018 Para European Swimming Championships in Dublin's National Aquatic Centre, British swimmer Maisie Summers-Newton was the story of the day as she baptised the Irish venue with a second ever Ireland-set para-swimming world record of 2:59.60 seconds in the women's 200 individual medley SM6 event. Four Irish athletes qualified for the evening finals and today Ellen Keane, who won bronze in the SB8 100m breaststroke in Rio two years ago, races in the 100m butterfly S9.
