Saturday sport: McSharry finishes fifth in European breaststroke final, United hammered by Brentford
Digital Desk Staff
Soccer
Manchester United suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat at Brentford in the Premier League's late kick-off as boss Erik ten Hag's wait for a first victory goes on.
All the goals game in a dismal first half performance by the visitors.
Gabriel Jesus bagged a brace in Arsenal's 4-2 win over Leicester, while defending champions Manchester City also made it back-to-back wins to start the new campaign.
They thrashed Bournemouth 4-0.
Southampton came from behind to seal a 2-2 draw at home to Leeds, with Aston Villa getting past Everton 2-1.
It finished 0-0 between Brighton and Newcastle, and Fulham's trip to Wolves also ended goalless.
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Wexford Youths have the chance to cut Shelbourne's lead at the top of Women's National League to five points this evening.
To do that, they need a win over Galway, but it's currently scoreless at Eamonn Deacy Park.
Leaders Shelbourne had a 4-0 win over Treaty United at Tolka Park this afternoon.
Elsewhere, Bohemians got the better of Sligo Rovers 2-0, DLR Waves and Peamount United finished 1-1 while Athlone are currently second thanks to a 2-1 win over Cork City.
GAA
Antrim were crowned the All-Ireland Ladies Football Junior champions this evening.
Cathy Carey scored two goals for the Saffrons as they got the better of Fermanagh at the second time of asking.
They won the replay 3-15 to 11 points.
Golf
Leona Maguire is 3 over par after 17 holes of her third round at the World Invitational on the LPGA Tour.
The Solheim Cup star is now 5 under for the week and seven shots off the lead.
Amanda Doherty now sits on top of the leaderboard on 12 under par.
Shane Lowry has gotten his penultimate round of the FedEx Saint Jude Championship underway this evening.
The Offaly man is level par thru 4 to remain to four-under-par in Memphis with JJ Spaun holding a one-shot advantage over the field at 11-under.
Rowing
Ireland has secured a silver medal in the Women's Four at the European Rowing Championships in Munich.
Natalie Long, Aifric Keogh, Tara Hanlon and Eimear Lambe were a length behind the boat of Great Britain with Romania in third place.
Fiona Murtagh and Emily Hegarty were fourth in the Women's Pair final.
Swimming
Mona McSharry finished fifth in the final of the Women's 100-metre breaststroke at the European Championships in Rome this evening.
Danielle Hill was sixth in her group and 11th overall in the 50m backstroke semi-final just missing out on a place in the finals.
Meanwhile, Darragh Greene was one second outside the qualifying time for the 200m backstroke finals.
The Longford native ended up 13th after today's session.
