Saturday sport: Ireland lead 1-0 Poland at half-time in women's World Cup qualifier
Soccer
The Republic of Ireland women's team lead Poland 1-0 at half-time in their World Cup qualifying campaign this afternoon.
Marissa Sheva opened the scoring right before the teams went in for the break.
Denise O'Sullivan was given a yellow card which means she will miss the next game against the Netherlands.
Later, the Dutch face off with fellow Group 2 sides France from 8:10pm.
Leeds are 2-0 up on Wolves in the Premier League and look set to take a step closer to safety.
James Justin and Noah Okafor with the goals.
Elsewhere, Bournemouth are 1-0 up away at Newcastle thanks to a Marcus Tavernier strike.
Brentford and Fulham played out a 0-0 draw in the first game of the day.
Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher kept his 9th clean sheet of the season in that one.
Tottenham can send Wolves down if they better their result when they take on Brighton at 5:30pm.
Today's late game sees the chase for Champions League football continue at Stamford Bridge as Manchester United face Chelsea - who've lost their last three top flight matches.
Rugby
Ireland take on Italy in round 2 of the Women's Six Nations on Saturday evening.
Scott Bemand's side will be looking to put their opening day defeat to England behind them.
Kick-off is at 5:40pm.
In the early game, England thrashed Scotland by 84 points to 7.
In the URC, Connacht came from behind to beat the Stormers by 33 points to 24 in South Africa.
John Devine scored his first try for the visitors while Sean Naughton scored the clincher late on.
Meanhile this evening, Munster are in Italy to face Benetton from 7.45pm.
GAA
Galway and Kilkenny is the pick of today's Leinster Hurling Championship action, which gets up and running this afternoon.
The Tribesmen were emphatic 36 points to 17 winners over the Cats in their league encounter last month.
Throw-in at Pearse Stadium is at 4:30pm.
Later, Dublin make the trip to Offaly and Kildare welcome Wexford for their opening games of the campaign.
Both throw in at 6:30pm.
Clare and Waterford will need extra time to see who will progress to the Munster camogie semi finals.
Their quarter final has finished level 2-12 to 18 points after a ding dong battle in Ennis.
That extra time period is now underway.
While in the Leinster Championship, there's the quarter-final meeting of Offaly and Dublin which is just underway in Tullamore.
Dublin GAA say they have been unsuccessful in their attempts to see Ger Brennan's ban overturned.
The football boss was suspended for 12 weeks following his clash with a member of Galway's backroom staff during a league game last month.
He appealed the case to the Disputes Resolution Authority who met this morning but ruled against the All Ireland winner.
It means Dean Rock will deputise in his place for tomorrow's Leinster football game against Wicklow.
Brennan will also miss the opening two games of their Sam Maguire campaign.
Snooker
It is the opening day of the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield.
Northern Ireland's Mark Allen is 5 frames to 3 down to China's Zhang Anda in their clash which will resume tomorrow.
Defending world champion Zhao Xintong is 5-4 up on Liam Highfield.
On the table, Mark Williams leads Polish whiz kid Antoni Kowalski 2-1 early on their first round tie at the Crucible.
The first to 10 frames will progress to the next round.
