Saturday sport: Galway beat Kildare, Cork and Donegal claim victories

The final scoreline was 3-21 to 0-17
Saturday sport: Galway beat Kildare, Cork and Donegal claim victories

Eva Osborne

Galway have beaten Kildare 3-21 to 0-17 at Pearse Stadium in Salthill.

Earlier, Cork beat Meath in the opening round of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

The final score was Cork 0-30 to Meath's 1-24 (27).

Earlier on, defending champions Kerry suffered an opening day defeat to Donegal.

The Kingdom will have another chance at remaining in the competition, facing another fellow losing side in Round 2B.

Last year's runners up defeated Kerry 2-20 to 16 points, with Ciaran Moore and Shea Malone grabbing the goals for Jim McGuinness's side.

Kilkenny have eased past Limerick in the All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.

Aoife Prendergast's haul of two goals and eight points helped them cruise to a 3-19 to 1-11 win at Nowlan Park.

Earlier on, Clare defeated Dublin.

A brace of goals from the Banner's Lorna McNamara saw them run out 2-16 to 3-10 winners.

Soccer

Hull have been promoted to the Premier League in dramatic fashion.

A late winner from Oli McBurnie saw the Tigers beat Middlesborough 1-0 at Wembley.

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Celtic have added another title to their trophy cabinet.

Martin O'Neill's side have beaten Dunfermline 3-1 in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park.

Goals from Daizen Maeda, Arne Engels and Kelechi Iheanacho have them on course for a double, just a week after they won the Scottish Premiership.

Barcelona have won a fourth Women's Champions League title.

They beat Lyon 4-0 in Norway.

Ewa Pajor and Salma Paralluelo both bagged two goals apiece.

Rugby

It was heartbreak for Leinster in Bilbao, as they suffered a fifth consecutive loss in a Champions Cup final.

They were defeated by Bordeaux Begles 41-19, who made it back-to-back wins in the competition.

The Blues trailed by four tries at the break, and weren't able to recover from the early onslaught from their French opponents despite a much improved second half.

Head coach Leo Cullen said today's Champions Cup final loss was a tough result to take.

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