Shamrock Rovers have seen their lead at the top of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division shorn to four points.

Cork City hope to boost their urgent need for goals with the signing on loan of striker Dan Smith from Portsmouth.

The domestic season may have just ended 24 hours ago, but the FAI have revealed the key dates for the 2019 season.

Cork City’s reign as league champions came to an end at Tallaght Stadium tonight, but with the consolation of having ended a three-game losing run in the Premier Division.

Derry City councillors have voted in favour of renaming the Brandywell after the late Ryan McBride.

Late heartbreak at Oriel Park.

Dundalk centre-back Sean Hoare has been named the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers’ Association of Ireland Player of the Month for May.

The SSE Airtricity/SWAI May Player of the Month nominations have been announced.

Dundalk have maintained their two-point lead at the top of the SSE Airtricity Premier Division.

It has been a night full of goals in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division.

Waterford moved within a point of league leaders Cork City this evening after they claimed a 2-1 win over Shamrock Rovers at the RSC.

An early goal from Patrick Hoban was enough to give Dundalk a 1-0 victory over Cork City in the Premier Division at Oriel Park on tonight.

Airtricity League Champions Cork City have two players in the first Airtricity/SWAI Player of the Month nominations of the season.

All games set to take place this weekend in the SSE Airtricity League are being closely monitored due to the Status Red warning issued by Met Eireann.

Shamrock Rovers 6 Bray Wanderers 0: Goals on their full debuts for new signings Dan Carr and Sean Kavanagh, and a brace from Brandon Miele, helped get Shamrock Rovers’ season up and running with a first win of the campaign.

Dundalk, still looking for a first goal and a first win after two scoreless draws, welcome Limerick to Oriel Park in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division tonight.

Attendances in the SSE Airtricity League have risen by 48.8% in the 2017 season in comparison to the same period from the previous season with Cork City heading the attendance league.

Cork City v Dundalk: Before a ball was kicked, Cork City had one over their great rivals Dundalk this season.

Cobh Ramblers 1 Cork City 3: Cork City made it three wins from four games in pre-season with a comfortable 3-1 victory against Cobh Ramblers at a sodden St Colman’s Park last night.

Possibly nothing more cogently expresses the mixture of dismay and desperation felt across the League of Ireland First Division at the scrapping of the promotion-relegation play-offs than the proposal, aired at a meeting of club representatives in Wexford last week, that the top three teams in the second tier would take part in an internal play-off at the end of this season, with the front-runners facing the winners of second v third in a one-off game to decide promotion to the 10-team Premier Division in 2018.

Dundalk have announced that their much criticised ‘plastic pitch’ at Oriel Park will be replaced in time for the start of the new SSE Airtricity League season.

Chiedozie Ogbene appears set to complete a move to Limerick from Cork City.

If the strength of an industry can be judged by how its most vulnerable are treated, then the League of Ireland has deep problems.

As he nears completion of his squad jigsaw for next season, Cork City manager John Caulfield readily acknowledges that a key piece is now in place with the retention of ace marksman Sean Maguire.

In a week which has seen him pick up his third league winners’ medal in a row as well as the PFAI Player of the Year award, Daryl Horgan has warned Dundalk can’t let their magnificent season ‘peter out’.

Wexford Youths 2 Drogheda United 0: It was a Halloween treat for Wexford Youths as two superb second-half goals handed them the advantage over Drogheda United following this first-leg promotion/relegation playoff at Ferrycarrig Park last night.

Dundalk 4 Galway Utd 1: Dundalk ensured their Airtricity Premier League of Ireland title celebrations started on a winning note by comfortably seeing off Galway United at Oriel Park last night before lifting their third title in a row.

Bray Wanderers 4 Cork City 1: Bray gave Cork the worst possible FAI Cup final send-off on the last day of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division season.

“You just can’t write it can you?” beamed John Mountney after playing his part in helping Dundalk to their third league title success in-a-row on Sunday night.

City will have used the game as a warm-up for their FAI Cup final rematch against Dundalk.

Cobh Ramblers 0 Drogheda Utd 2: A couple of well taken goals in two second-half minutes in this SSE Airtricity First Division play off, first leg put Drogheda well on course for a return to the Premier League.

Dundalk 2 Bohemians 1: Three, they say, is a magic number — and it certainly felt like it at Oriel Park last night as Dundalk players and fans jubilantly celebrated a hat-trick of league titles.

Dundalk boss Stephen Kenny admits he will have to give serious consideration to how best to manage the balance of work, rest, and play for his players in the period covering their final two Europa League Group D games.

Wexford Youths 0 Finn Harps 0: Finn Harps preserved their top-flight status while they dumped Wexford Youths into the relegation play-offs with a boring scoreless draw at Ferrycarrig Park last night.

Shamrock Rovers 0 Bray Wanderers 0: Shamrock Rovers booked their place in the Europa League last night but it appears Stephen Bradley won’t be at the helm for the 2017 season.