Saturday sport: Leinster reach Champions Cup final, Derry reach Ulster final

Leinster have booked their place in the Champions Cup final after a impressive victory over Toulouse in the Aviva Stadium.

Jack Conan scored two tries, while tries from Dan Sheehan, Josh Van Der Flier and Jason Jenkins secured a 41-22 victory.

They will face the winners of tomorrow’s semi-final, Exter Chiefs or La Rochelle, who defeated them in the final moments of last year’s final.

 

Meanwhile, Ireland will hope to avoid the wooden spoon in the final round of the TikTok Women’s Six Nations later.

Greg McWilliams’ side will need a bonus-point victory as they take on Scotland in Edinburgh from 7:30pm.

England won the Grand Slam in a thrilling 38-33 victory over France.

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Wales rounded out their campaign with a 36-10 win away to Italy.

Soccer

Evan Ferguson wasn’t included in Brighton’s squad for this afternoon’s Premier League meeting with Wolves.

The Irish international has been nursing an ankle injury, as Brighton won 6-0 in their race for European football.

Brentford came from behind to defeat Nottingham Forest 2-1, as Steve Cooper’s side sit just outside the relegation zone.

In the lunchtime kick-off, Crystal Palace edged out West Ham 4-3 to all-but secure their league status.

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The top of the table clash in the Women’s Premier Division remains goalless heading into the second half.

Peamount and Shamrock Rovers have been unable to break the deadlock in the opening 45 minutes.

Bohemians lead Cork City 1-nil, while Athlone are also 1-nil up away to Sligo Rovers.

Already today, Galway United overcame the challenge of DLR Waves by two goals to nil.

The meeting of Wexford Youths and Shelbourne has just kicked off.

GAA

The meeting of Clare and Limerick in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship has just thrown in.

In the Leinster Championship, Dublin lead Westmeath by 1-10 to 1-7, while it’s Wexford 1-18 Antrim 1-9.

Both of those matches got underway at 6 o’clock.

There is also action in the Leinster Hurling Championship getting underway from 6pm.

Wexford take on Antrim at Wexford Park, while Parnell Park is the venue for Dublin’s meeting with Westmeath.

Derry are through to another the Ulster football final. The defending champions beat Monaghan by 1-21 to 2-10 at Healy Park in Omagh.

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Conor McCluskey scored the Derry goal in the opening half.

Snooker

Mark Allen’s World Snooker Championship semi-final against Mark Selby gets back underway in the next few moments.

The Antrim native trails by 11 frames to ten, with the first to 17 set to progress to the decider at the Crucible.

Luca Brecel is already through, after winning 12 of the last 13 frames to beat Si Juahui (pr: jow-wee) by 17 frames to 15.

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