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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Sport
Oisin Doherty

Navan races cancelled as icy weather throws Irish sporting calendar into chaos

A number of events in the Irish sporting calendar have been disrupted due to the extremely cold weather conditions that have hit Ireland in recent days.

Many parts of the island have been impacted by the cold snap, with overnight temperatures dropping to almost -5C in some parts of the country.

The resulting icy and frosty conditions have led to many cancellations in the Irish rail, LUAS and DART services.

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But, it's not only infrastructure that has been affected. A number of sporting events that were due to take place over the weekend are now likely to be postponed.

The Navan racing fixture for Saturday, December 10th has been cancelled due to the extremely cold weather. Navan Racecourse released a video on social media earlier today that showed the course hot with significant frost making it impossible for racing to take place tomorrow.

Racing from Bangor on Friday has also been cancelled.

The Munster Senior Football Championship final has seen it's throw-in time changed from Saturday evening to Saturday afternoon. In a statement released by the county board, 'current weather conditions' were to blame for the change in throw-in time.

The game between Kerins O’Rahillys (Kerry) and Newcastle West (Limerick) in the final will now take place in Mallow at 3pm. Sunday’s AIB Munster Club Intermediate and Junior Football Finals scheduled for Mallow go ahead as planned.

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