Laois Nationalist — Sunday sport: Tyrone win by three points in exciting clash with Kerry
Kenneth Fuchs
GAA
After a thrilling duel between Tyrone and Kerry, the whistle was blown at Healy Park in Omagh.
The home team prevailed by three points and won 1:15 to 2:19.
Elsewhere, Galway came from behind to defeat Monaghan 1-13, 0-10 at Pearse Stadium.
in the dr Hyde Park leads Mayo 9-4 at half-time against their Connacht rivals Roscommon.
Allianz Football League R5 (Full-time)
Tír Eoghain 1-15 (18)
Ciarraí 2-9 (15)Victory at O’Neill’s Healy Park 💪🏻#resurrection pic.twitter.com/M858NJBPNd
— Tyrone GAA (@TyroneGAALive) March 5, 2023
football
Celtic have come back from falling behind with a 5-1 win over St Mirren and restored their nine-point lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
Everton lead 2-1 against Nottingham Forest in the first game of the Premier League at the City Ground.
A great battle of rivals follows as Liverpool take on Manchester United at Anfield.
The Women’s League Cup final has just started, Chelsea meet Arsenal.
Katie McCabe starts for the Gunners.
athletics
Sarah Lavin has booked her spot for tonight’s 60m hurdles final at the European Indoors in Istanbul.
The Limerick woman finished third in her semi-final in a time of 7.99 seconds to see her progress.
Sophie Becker, Sharlene Mawdsley, Cliodhna Manning and Phil Healy are in the women’s 4x400m relay final just before 4.30pm this afternoon.
UCD AC’s Darragh McElhinney heads into the 3,000m final at 5pm.
golf
Women’s World Cup
Leona Maguire finished 20th in the HSBC Women’s World Championship this morning.
A 1-under par final round of 71 saw her with 7-under par for the Singapore tournament.
That was 10 shots shy of winner Jin Young Ko of South Korea, who retained her title with a two-shot win over America’s Nelly Korda.
Arnold Palmer invitation
Rory McIlroy is the best of the Irish ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational finals later today in Florida.
He hit a four-under par round of 68 last night, leaving him six under par overall.
He is tied in fifth place and just three shots from the lead held by American Kurt Kitayama.
Padraig Harrington went below 72 after a level par yesterday.
Meanwhile, Seamus Power and Shane Lowry both had days to forget. The respective rounds of four and eight over last night both total six over par.
F1
World Champion Max Verstappen will be on pole position at the Bahrain Grand Prix this afternoon.
The Red Bull driver finished qualifying for the season’s opening race ahead of teammate Sergio Perez.
Charles Leclerc was third for Ferrari.
This starts at 3pm Irish time.
Run
Today at Wexford is a seven race map of 20 to 2.
20 minutes later the first of seven races starts in Leopardstown.