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Sport Headlines 17th August

Wednesday, 17 August 2016 07:19

The Cork County Board Strategic Review Steering Committee are set to hold an open forum for Clubs on the state of the game here on Leeside.

Club representatives are being invited to the meeting in Eire Og on September 24th, with an outside facilitator being brought in to oversee the process, after which a report will be compiled to detail all proposals. 

The board sought the approval of Delegates to begin a "head hunt" for a Coach for the County Under 21 Hurling team, with Chairman Ger Lane identifying the coaching of teams as an area of concern in the intercounty reports. 

This move was supported by Delegates and the Board expect to have an individual to formally propose at the September meeting of the board. 

Dundalk aim to make League of Ireland history tonight as they play host to Polish champions Legia Warsaw at the Aviva Stadium.

Stephen Kenny's side are targeting a place in the group stages of the Champions League and have home advantage for tonight's first-leg of their play-off tie.

kick off is at 7,45

Also tonight, Celtic play host to Israeli side Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the first-leg of their tie at the same time.

Thomas Barr has qualified for the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final.

The Waterford man won his heat early this morning  with a time of 48.39. 

In diving Oliver Dingley finished a very respectable 8th in the 3 metre Springboard final.

Irish golfers Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will finally get their Olympics underway today.

After a long wait in Brazil, the pair will both be in action on the opening day of the Women's Golf tournament.

Meanwhile, Ciara Everard is the only other Irish Olympian in action today.

She competes in Heat 1 of the women's 800 metres, which is due to get underway at 14:55pm, Irish time.

Meanwhile, we here at Bench towers are still trying to get our heads around the Michael Conlan fight yesterday.

Here's a challenge - watch the fight again, but with the commentary off. Try and watch it objectively. Was it a robbery, or was it a bit closer than that?

We've done just that, and Conlan was definitely robbed. No doubt about it. Can't blame him for being angry afterwards.

 

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