Each weekend, we select performances from Irish sports worthy of highlighting. This weekend, we highlight action in Gaelic Football, Camogie, Golf and Boxing.

This week’s Champions of the Weekend is brought to us by SSE Airtricity, one of Sport for Business’s key partners and supporters of our coverage of Sustainability in Sport.

 

Leona Maguire

Leona Maguire lit up the Amundi Evian Championship with a hole-in-one on the opening day and continued on top of her game to record a seventh-place finish, her fourth Top 10 in a major of her career.

 

Lottie Woad

Yes, she is English, but last weekend she won the KPMG Women’s Irish Open as an amateur, and seven days later she finished third, only one shot out of a play-off at the Amundi Evian Championship in France, elevating the status of the Irish Open once more.
Kerry and Donegal Footballers

The semi-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championships may not have scaled the heights of drama witnessed throughout the tournament. Still, Kerry and Donegal arrive in the final as the two best teams in the country, and the excitement is already tingling for what could be a classic in two weeks.

 

New York GAA

New York beat London to secure a third consecutive Junior Football Championship at Croke Park on Sunday.

 

Kildare GAA

The Tailteann Cup has grown into a major target for counties who might once have scaled the heights of winning the Sam Maguire but who are now proud to be at the peak of the second tier. It gives fans and players the chance of a winning run and a trophy lift in Croke Park, as well as the kind of momentum that Meath took into making it to the Leinster Final this year and then the All-Ireland semi-finals. Well done to Kildare for becoming this year’s Champions.

 

Kerry and Offaly Camogie

Kerry Camogie has been growing in strength and at the weekend they beat Down to make it to the Intermediate Championship Final at croke Park in four weeks time. That puts them only 60 minutes away from playing in the Senior Championship next season, a huge achievement for the sport in the county. They will face Offaly in the Final who beat Antrim by a one point margin in the other semi-final.

Katie Taylor

On Friday night into Saturday Morning Katie Taylor was the unquestionable winner in the trilogy fight of her rivalry against Amanda Serrano. We are unsure what next for Katie but her place as the greatest female boxer in history is secure.

 

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