Bumper Weekend of action
A jam-packed weekend of GAA championship action sees the senior men’s and ladies footballers starting their Munster Championships in a double header in Fitzgerald Stadium on Saturday followed by the Kerry hurlers commencing their Joe McDonagh Cup campaign in Mullingar on Sunday.
The Kerry senior footballers will definitely be without Jason Foley, Conor Geaney and Ruairi Murphy for their Munster Senior Football Championship Semi-Final clash with Cork.
There are also concerns that both Joe O’Connor and Brian Ó Beaglaoich will not be fit enough to start against the Rebels on Saturday.
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Kennedy aboard three winners in Aintree
Although Jack Kennedy had to settle for second in the big one, it was a terrific three days for Irish raiders at Aintree topped off by the success of 7/1 joint-favourite I Am Maximus in the Randox Grand National on Saturday.
He ran out a most impressive seven-and-a-half length winner to give Willie Mullins a second victory in the race and Paul Townend a first taste of victory in the showpiece event. Mullins was previously a winner with Hedgehunter in 2005 and his latest success gave owner JP McManus his third win after Don’t Push It in 2010 and Minella Times in 2021. Better again, the latest renewal of the race resulted in a 1-2-3-4 for Irish-trained runners with Gordon Elliott’s Delta Work taking the runner-up spot ahead of Henry de Bromhead’s Minella Indo and Galvin, another Elliott runner.
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