RUGBY
Leinster will have their work cut out for them if they are to reach the knockout stages of next season's European Champions Cup.
The province will go up against defending champions Toulon as well as Premiership giants, Bath and Wasps after today's draw.
Munster will face newly-crowned French champions Stade Francais as well as Leicester and Treviso, while Ulster are facing Saracens, Toulose and Oyonnax.
Meanwhile, Rhys Ruddock's World Cup hopes could be over as he awaits the result of x-rays on his latest arm injury.
The Leinster flanker played just 20 minutes of Emerging Ireland's bonus-point win over Uruguay today before he was forced off and head coach Allen Clarke admitted afterwards that it appeared to be a recurrence of the injury that ruled him out of Ireland's Six Nations campaign.
Clarke says it's too soon to know how long the player his likely to be sidelined for, but confirmed that he will miss Sunday's final Tbilisi Cup match against Georgia.
GAA
Waterford are through to the semi-finals of the Bord Gais Energy Munster U21 championship after a crushing 10 point win over Cork.
On the day he finished his Leaving Cert, Shane Bennett was named man-of-the-match after he scored 1-04 from wing-back while Patrick Curran finished with a personal tally of 12 points as they cruised to a deserved win by 1-21 to 1-11 in their quarter-final at Pairc Ui Rinn.
Waterford will now face Clare in their semi-final on July 15th at Cusack Park in Ennis.
SOCCER
Ireland international Stephanie Roche has joined the Sunderland Ladies team.
Roche was on the look-out for a new club after her contract with US side Houston Dash was cancelled just last month.
RACING
There was another big Irish winner on day two of this year's Royal Ascot.
The Dermot Weld-trained "Free Eagle" claimed a dramatic victory in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes after beating home favourite "The Grey Gatsby" in a photo-finish to the feature race.
EUROPEAN GAMES
Ireland's boxers had another successful day at the European Games.
Welterweight Adam Nolan and Middleweight Michael O'Reilly both won all their rounds of their last-32 bouts in Baku.
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