MEN’S FOOTBALL: Unbeaten Derry will move top of the League of Ireland with a win at Shelbourne on Friday evening as current leaders Bohemians are not in action until Saturday when they travel to Sligo.

In Friday night’s other fixtures St Patrick’s host winless bottom club UCD in a Dublin derby between the bottom two, Cork City play Drogheda and Dundalk take on champions Shamrock Rovers, who are also yet to win this season.

MEN’S CRICKET: Ireland continue their miserable tour of Bangladesh on Friday with the final leg of the three match Twenty20 series in Chittagong after heavily losing Wednesday’s game by 77 runs to go 2-0 down.

Sri Lanka are enjoying a similarly torrid time in New Zealand but get the chance to level their one-day international series in Hamilton Friday morning after Tuesday’s game was washed out without a ball being bowled.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Luke Keary bagged two tries as the Sydney Roosters comfortably saw off Parramatta 28-20 today to move second behind Brisbane in the Australian National Rugby League.

Canberra take on reigning champions Penrith and South Sydney Rabbitohs match up with the Melbourne Storm in Friday’s games before Brisbane, the only unbeaten team left in the competition, host bottom of the table Wests on Saturday.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Jon Grey has been appointed the first full-time assistant coach of the Wales women’s national team. Grey has been Swansea’s academy manager since September 2021 and is also head coach of the Championship club’s Under-21 side. 

Wales just missed out on qualification for this summer’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, losing to a last-minute Switzerland winner in the play-off final. They are set to start their build-up for the Euro 2025 qualifiers and the inaugural Nations League later this year.