A round-up of today's other sports in brief
Cunningham named July manager of month
SPORTS AWARD:Anthony Cunningham, manager of the Galway senior hurling side, has been named Philips sports manager of the month for July.
Galway produced a stunning display against Kilkenny, beating them by 10 points, to secure the Bob O’Keeffe Cup for the first time in their history as the winners of the Leinster final. Having raced into a 2-12 to 0-4 lead at half-time the Tribesmen secured their victory with a superb overall performance.
Since that victory Galway have gone on to beat Cork to win a place in next month’s All-Ireland final where they will again face reigning champions Kilkenny.
Armstrong's action against Anti-Doping Agency dismissed
CYCLING:Lance Armstrong's legal action against the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has been dismissed in a Texas court.
The seven-time Tour de France winner, who was charged by USADA in June with using performance-enhancing drugs, filed a lawsuit in a US federal court asking for a temporary restraining order against the agency.
Armstrong had been issued with formal doping charges by USADA but then counter-claimed that the agency had offered ‘corrupt inducements’ to other cyclists to testify against him.
However, the decision taken yesterday means Armstrong will now have to face the doping charges and also the prospect of losing his record-breaking total of seven Tour de France titles.
Alejandro Valverde won stage three of the Tour of Spain yesterday to take the overall lead. Joaquim Rodriguez finished second in the four-man sprint that decided the mountain top stage, with Chris Froome in third and Alberto Contador in fourth.
Ireland’s Nicholas Roche finished 11th on the stage just 27 seconds behind Valverde and is also 11th overall at 52 seconds.
Dolphin stalwart Gerald Reidy dies
RUGBY:The death has taken place of former IRFU president and Dolphin stalwart Gerald Reidy, who died on Sunday.
IRFU president in 1983/84, Reidy was captain, coach, selector, president (twice) Munster Branch representative, trustee and honorary life member of Dolphin. In 1967/8 he served as Dolphin president for the first time and he was Munster Branch president in 1975/76
His long association with Dolphin started in 1938 with Dolphin Youths, in 1943/44 he won a Munster Schools Senior Cup medal with CBC and a Cork Minor League medal with Dolphin. He earned the first of his 13 Munster caps in 1949 at Thomond Park in a 6-3 victory over RAF and was on the second Munster team to win the Interprovincial Championship in 1952/53.
He won the first of five international caps against Wales in 1953 and played with Lansdowne for the 1952/53 season, winning a Leinster Senior Cup medal.
He is survived by his wife Anne (Kiernan) and their four children Tom, Michelle, Geraldine and Suzanne.
Ireland get off to a flyer in Croatia
The Irish team got off to great start at the seventh European Transplant and Dialysis Games in Croatia yesterday after winning five gold, three silver and eight bronze so far in the first two days of the event which will continue until Saturday.
Eoghan O’Neill, a native of Newmarket-on-Fergus and now living in Ashbrook, Limerick, secured a gold in the 400m freestyle event in his age category 18-29 years.
O’Neill also secured a bronze in the relay with team-mates Peter Heffernan and Paul Prendergast from Dublin and Tipperary woman Sheila Gregan.
This is the first time for O’Neill, a kidney transplant recipient, to represent Ireland at the Games.
Gregan, a kidney transplant recipient from Nenagh, Tipperary, also picked up two golds in the 50m and 100m breaststroke events in her age category (40-49 years), as well as securing a silver in the 400m freestyle event.
A delighted Gregan said after her wins: “I am so very proud to say the least. It hasn’t hit me yet.”
