This is the schedule for all the action in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics involving Irish athletes that takes place on Saturday, August 7th and Sunday, August 8th.
All times are fixed to Irish Standard Time.
Boxing (Saturday, August 7th 06:00-07:55)
Men’s Fly (48-52kg) Final – Brendan Irvine
Track Cycling (07:30-10:25)
Men’s Madison Final – Mark Downey, Felix English, Fintan Ryan (Reserve)
Athletics (11:00-14:20, 23:00-01:45)
Men’s 1500m Final – Andrew Coscoran
23:00
Men’s Marathon Final – Paul Pollock, Stephen Scullion, Kevin Seaward
Equestrian (11:00-13:30)
Jumping Team Final – Cian O’Connor, Bertram Allen, Darragh Kenny, Austin O’Connor (Reserve)
Track Cycling (Sunday, August 8th 02:00-05:15)
Women’s Omnium Races – Emily Kay
Boxing (06:00-07:55)
Women’s Light (57-60kg) Final – Kellie Harrington
To see a list of all qualified Irish athletes going to the Olympics, click here.
For in-depth profiles of each Irish athlete at the Olympics, click here.
Leinster football semi-final Result- Dublin struggled past Meath in Croke Park to reach the final against Kildare
Going into injury time Dublin had only scored 2pts in the second half, its worrying times for Dessie Farrell as he will face Kerry or Cork in an All-Ireland semi-final if he gets past Kildare in the Leinster final
Dessie Farrell’s post match interview below
Score commentary
75′
Result – Dublin 2-16 Meath 1-13
75′
Kilkenny hits the third injury time point for Dublin
75′
Cormac Costello puts Dublin 5pts up
72′
Brian Fenton kicks Dublin 4pts up
70′
Three points in it, Dublin have only scored 2pts in the second half. Five min injury time
68′
A point from a free by Thomas O\’Reilly
68′
Meath score the 45, only 4pts in it
66′
Good save by Comerford from Jones
65′
Jordan Morris
62′
No score since the water break
55′
Dublin by 5pts with 15min to play
52′
Dublin 2-13 Meath 1-11 at water break
49′
Joey Wallace and Jordan Morris points get Meath back to within 4pts, they lead the second half by 7pts
43′
A point from play by Jordan Morris, 6 in it
41′
A point from play by Joey Wallace, Meath back to within 7pts
37′
Mathew Costello GOAL for Meath
0′
Second half start at 5:28pm
35′
Dean Rock point – Half time – Dublin 2-11 Meath 0-06
35′
Costello with a nice point for Meath
34′
Jordan Morris free goes to hawk eye but its a wide
32′
Wallace with the first score of 2nd quarter
31′
Con O’Callaghan with another score
31′
Con O’Callaghan with a lovely score
26′
Another Kilkenny point, its Dublin 2-08 Meath 0-04
22′
Con O’Callaghan GOAL
21′
Ciaran Kilkenny point
21′
Paddy Small point
18′
Point from play by Jordan Morris, Meath trail 1-04 to 0-04 at the first water break
16′
A point from a free by Mathew Costello
13′
Dublin Penalty – Cormac Costello scores it
10′
Cormac Costello and Bryan McMahon trade scores
8′
Ciaran Kilkenny point after a good goal chance
5′
Meath point
5′
Dean Rock doubles the lead
2′
Con O’Callaghan opens the scoring
3′
Meath 45′ kicked wide
2′
Cormac Costello shot drops short
2′
First wide from Tom Lahiff
Meath have made three changes Harry Hogan replaces Andy Colgan in goals, Conor McGill comes in at full-back for Ronan Ryan, Eamon Wallace is named at wing-forward in place of Ethan Devine.
All-Ireland champions Dublin will go head to head with Leinster rivals Meath at Croke Park this coming Sunday at 4:30 pm as the second part of a doubleheader in the last of the Leinster Senior Football Championship semi-finals.
The Dubs shared the title of the league champions with All-Ireland rivals, Kerry, during their league campaign.
Remaining undefeated in all three of the league games, they have not looked their best, but that is expected, even from Dublin.
With numerous retirements from past winners and a couple more on the horizon, this Dublin side is in a transition period from the glory-laden Jim Gavin era.
The Dubs looked less than impressive against Wexford in the quarter-final. Winning by a small margin of 8 points, impressive for Wexford to have kept the score down so low and to not concede a goal.
For Dublin, it will simply be put down to not leaving first gear.
They are still the team to beat and will go on to lift a historic seven-in-a-row later in August.
Meath is their great rivals from the past, not being crowned Leinster champions since 2010, and losing five finals since then, all to Dublin.
The Royal County had a decent league campaign, finishing second only behind a vibrant Mayo side, beating Down and Westmeath in the process.
Losing out on their promotion hopes up to Division 1 with a 3-point losing effort to fellow Leinster semi-finalists Kildare in June.
Beating Longford by a massive 22 point to reach the semi’s, Meath have been the form team this season so far.
They come into this game with a monkey on their back, questions of can they beat Dublin will be put to this squad until they do pull off an upset win.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Not much can be said about Dublin that has not been said already, boasting high-quality talent in all positions, they can beat you from anywhere.
The only weakness you could accuse the Dubs of is the reports of Stephen Cluxton’s future and how that will affect them.
Their opponents have a good team, but mentally how will they respond when Dublin get a goal and start to pull away from them.
If last year’s Leinster final was anything to go by, Meath will fall away and cave to the Dublin storm.
Conclusion
A repeat of last years All-Ireland final is on the cards, picking Meath to pull off a stunning upset is more of hope rather than reality.
If the Dubs come out and play like they usually do, then Meath will want the game to end as soon as possible.
However, I do believe that Meath will do much better than last year.
Prediction: Dublin by 13 points
Starting teams
Dublin : Evan Comerford; Michael Fitzsimons, David Byrne, Philly McMahon; Tom Lahiff, Brian Howard, Sean McMahon; Brian Fenton, James McCarthy; Colm Basquel, Ciaran Kilkenny, Niall Scully; Paddy Small, Con O’Callaghan, Cormac Costello.
Subs: Harry Hogan, Conor McGill, Eoin Harkin, James McEntee, Brían Conlon, Ronan Jones, Eamon Wallace, Michael Newman, Thomas O’Reilly, James Conlon and Danny Dixon.
The lily whites have been impressive this term, topping their Division 2 South group before defeating narrowly defeated Meath in the semi-final, gaining promotion to Divison 1 along with Mayo.
Their only defeat being against Clare, Jack O’Connor has improved his side since his appointment in 2019.
They overcame a strong-willed Offaly side in the quarter-final by a score of 1-15 to 0-13 last week and come into this game as favourites.
Westmeath endured a horrible league run, losing all three games, but playing heroically for the vast majority of those games.
Eventually losing to fellow strugglers Cork in the relegation semi-final, they were relegated down to Division 3 along with the team they faced in the Leinster quarter-finals Laois.
Last year, neither side looked strong enough to challenge Dublin, or at least compete with them.
Meath hammered Kildare in the semi-final, while Westmeath held their own against the Dubs, being eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Jack O’Connor has not put his stamp on his side as of yet, playing a decent style of football throughout the league and looking good going forward.
They do, however, lack something of a clinical nature in their squad, not being able to finish of teams nor having that one standout player to see them through games.
Their opponents on the other hand lack a noticeable style to their game. Throughout the league, and especially in their loss to Mayo they leaned towards playing the long ball into the full-forward line.
If that didn’t work, the players would retreat and look void of ideas.
Conclusion
No matter what, Dublin will beat both sides with relative ease, but out of the two contenders, I can only see Kildare winning this one.
Stronger going forward, a better and experienced manager who is a proven winner. The lily whites should have enough to progress.
Prediction: Kildare by 12 points
Starting Teams
Westmeath: Jason Daly; Jamie Gonoud, Kevin Maguire (captain), Boidu Sayeh; James Dolan, Ronan Wallace, Sam McCartan; Ray Connellan, Sam Duncan; Denis Corroon, Ger Egan, David Lynch; Lorcan Dolan, John Heslin, Ronan O’Toole.
Kildare : Mark Donnellan; Mark Dempsey, Mick O’Grady, Eoin Doyle; Kevin Flynn, David Hyland, Ryan Houlihan; Kevin Feely, Aaron Masterson; Conor Hartley, Fergal Conway, Neil Flynn; Darragh Kirwan, Ben McCormack, Jimmy Hyland.
Last year’s Ulster finalists Donegal have had a rocky road so far this season, topping their group in Division 1 North but being underwhelming.
They drew two games against Ulster rivals Armagh and Monaghan who will also face off against one another in the first Ulster semi-final. You can see our preview of the game here: Armagh v Monaghan
Their only victory came against the team they will face on Sunday. They defeated Tyrone by a score of 0-16 to 0-18 in an entertaining game.
While league form is not often looked at deeply for when the championship comes around, Donegal’s for the most part have been uninspiring and is not what Declan Bonner would have hoped for.
Since then, they ran over Down in the Preliminary Round of the Ulster championship and defeated a resilient and much-improved Derry in the quarter-final last Sunday.
Tyrone have been a shell of their former self this season. Only winning one of their league games and then being humiliated against Kerry in the league semi-final, managers Fergal Logan and Brian Dooher must be scratching their heads at how poor their side has been as of late.
They came out victors against reigning Ulster champions Cavan in the quarter-finals with a 1-18 to 0-13 win that has put them up with contention once more.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Donegal is a team of two halves, on one side their attacking threat is arguably one of the best in the country, while their defensive issues still remain a large part of their failures in recent years.
After their defensive woes were on full show against Down they did look competent at the back against Derry at times, but it is a point of contention for Tyrone to exploit.
Paddy McBrearty was excellent against Derry, scoring 0-3 and notching over the score of the season in added time to see Donegal progress. He will be hard stopped in this game.
Looking at Tyrone if they can win the midfield battle, they will have a chance to get at Donegal. But if Michael Murphy is fit enough to return, he might be Tyrone’s downfall.
Conclusion
Declan Bonner’s side will be full of confidence after their hard-fought win over Derry, looking great as a free-flowing scoring side in the past two games.
It’s hard not to favour Donegal in this game, Tyrone have simply been out of sorts this year, looking void of idea’s and have shown already when a good team puts it to them, they crumble.
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