Sunday 9th August

Ruairí (0:12)

Ruairí here with you until 7 o'clock along with Lauren Guildford as we wrap up all today's action, including a busy day in the Premier Senior Hurling Championship. We're going to be talking to Na Piarsaigh and to Black Rock. I'm here from Sarsfields after their win last night as well.

Also on the show, it's the second part of our Mark Keane interview after he made his AFL debut last week for Collingwood. And we're going to talk to Cork Con president, Donal Lenihan, about keeping the club going during the lockdown. All that and plenty more besides you listening to The Big Red Bench on Cork's Red FM.

We are here until seven o'clock tonight. If you'd like to get in touch, you can text us 086-8104106. You can tweet us at Big Red Bench. Send us a WhatsApp as well if you fancy. 086-8104106. Hope we all enjoy the absolutely beautiful, glorious weather that's been out there in Cork City and County today. Lauren is with us this weekend. Lauren, you certainly brought the weather with you anyway.

Lauren Guildford (1:26)

I did, I brought it all the way from Clare, so you're welcome.

Ruairí (1:28)

Yeah, thanks a million for that. But yeah, absolutely fantastic weather. You were at a game today as well. We'll talk about that in a bit.

But I suppose first off, Lauren, you want to get us up to date with everything that happened today?

Lauren Guildford (1:39)

I will indeed. There was numerous GAA games on across the county today. In the Primary Senior Hurling Championship, Black Rock 226, Newtown Chatham 214 Na Piarsaigh 223 to the bar is 17 points.

In the Senior A Hurling Championship, Cork climbed 24 points to Killaz 18

Then in the Intermediate A Hurling Championship, Kildallary 121 to Argylline Rangers 110 Mayfield 112 to Dungourney's 13 points. Sars 227, Mealyn 17 points. Airog 421, Douglas 11 Ahablogue 21 points to Glen Rovers 115 Then in the Lower Intermediate Hurling Championship, Ballyarvin 115 to Barry Rose 210 Tracton 124, Dripsy 312

Kilbritton and Russell Rovers played out a draw. It was Kilbritton 211 to 114 Castlemarter 122, Milford 314, which was a two-point victory for Castlemarter. And St. Catharines beat Grenna on a scoreline of 115 to 11 points. And there's three fixtures later today, all throwing in at 7 p.m. In the Primary Intermediate Hurling Championship, we have Inascara meeting Blackrock.

In Intermediate A, Clock Dove meet Middleton. And in Lower Intermediate, St. Finbury's are playing Ballymurtle. As I said, all those games throwing in at 7 p.m. Yes, certainly a very, very busy day of Gaelic Games action.

Ruairí (2:54)

Today, as I mentioned, we'll have a reaction from Blackrock's win over Newtown and the Pearshegg's win over the Bears coming up a little bit later on in the show.

Lauren Guildford (3:01)

Then into Formula One, Red Bull's Max Verstappen has won Formula One's 70th anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Lewis Hamilton was second for Mercedes to extend his championship lead over his teammate Valtteri Baras, who was third. The win was Verstappen's first of the 2020 season. And speaking with Sky Sports, he hopes the win will increase the pressure on the Mercedes team.

Fergal Ryan (3:20)

So far, I didn't really have an opportunity in all the races to push them.

Ray Ryan (3:23)

And I could see we were pushing them.

Mark Keane (3:25)

So, yeah, I tried to put the pressure on there to pit.

Fergal Ryan (3:28)

And from their own, I could do my own pace and basically build that advantage to the end.

Lauren Guildford (3:32)

Onto golf next, Dustin Johnson will take a one-shot lead into the final round of golf's USPGA Championship. The former world number one is nine under power in San Francisco with the best UK challenge coming from Paul Casey, who is two shots back.

It's the first golf major since the coronavirus pandemic began and there are no fans present. But Johnson tells SkySport News, it feels like it's still a big tournament.

SPEAKER_1 (3:55)

When I was coming down the stretch at Hartford, it felt just like it did when there was, you know, if there was 100,000 people around or with none. So for me to feel the same, you know, tomorrow I want to go out and just play as best I can. That's all I can do.

Ruairí (4:09)

I have to say golf is probably the one sport that doesn't seem to me as affected by the lack of fans than other sports.

Lauren Guildford (4:16)

No, I think from a psychological perspective as well, golfers really aren't going to be paying attention to the crowd and what's around them.

Ruairí (4:22)