Bohemians are through to the final of the Eircom League Cup after beating Shamrock Rovers 1-0 at Dalymount Park last night.

Derry City, Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians have joined UCD in the last four of the eircom League Cup following quarter-final victories yesterday evening.

St Patrick's Athletic and Sligo Rovers are both out of the eircom League Cup after losing their second-round ties yesterday evening.

St Pats 0 UCD 1

Cork City 2 Dungannon Swifts 1

Shelbourne are hoping to extend their gap at the top of the table to 10 points over Derry City with a win a Tolka Park in the eircom League Premier Division tonight.

Derry City 0 Shelbourne 0 (Derry won 3-0 in penalty shoot-out after 30 minutes extra time)

The draw for the home venue for this year’s eircom League Cup final between Derry City and Shelbourne will take place at the Great Southern Hotel, Dublin Airport at noon today.

Shelbourne 1 Bohemians 0

Derry City face a difficult trip to Limerick in the eircom League Cup semi-finals after Friday evening’s draw.

Shelbourne will be injury-free when they take on Finn Harps at Tolka Park tonight.

THE eircom League Cup quarterfinals have pitted together Cup specialists Derry City and Drogheda United.

DESPITE the fact that he expects Cobh Ramblers to come out fighting in tonight’s eircom League Cup clash at Turner’s Cross (kick-off 7.45), Cork City manager Damian Richardson intends resting as many first-team players as he possibly can.

Derry City manager Stephen Kenny hopes to be able to select Mark Farren and Eamon Doherty when Longford Town travel to the Brandywell tonight.

The battle of Louth takes place tonight in the eircom League Cup with Dundalk hosting league leaders Drogheda United at Oriel Park.

Dublin City will be hoping to bounce back from last week’s 2-0 defeat by St Patrick’s Athletic against local rivals Shelbourne in the eircom League Cup at Dalymount Park.

St Patrick’s Athletic will keep faith with the 11 that beat Cork City on Friday when they face First Division Shamrock Rovers in the eircom League Cup tonight.

SHELBOURNE have ruled out any possible deal with controversial lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano.

THE draw for the second round of the eircom League Cup was made at Richmond Park yesterday.

The draw for the second round of the eircom League Cup has been made with a number of interesting local derbies taking place.

Birmingham 1 Bolton 0

Dublin City will be without Ger McCarthy for the next six weeks after the striker suffered an ankle injury.

THE draw for the eircom League Cup has been made. The 24 clubs have been divided into four pools of six teams.

The first round draw of the eircom League Cup has thrown up some interesting ties with the all Premier Division clash between Bray Wanderers and St Patrick's Athletic the biggest draw.

SHELBOURNE manager Pat Fenlon has made it clear that he doesn’t want to lose star striker Jason Byrne, but if the player is to leave Tolka Park the Shels boss insists that the deal has to be right for both the player and the club.

Derry City captain Peter Hutton is the eircom/Soccer Writers' Association Player of the Month for September.

Having claimed the eircom League Cup on Tuesday, Derry City will hope to stay on course for an amazing treble by seeing off Shamrock Rovers in tonight’s FAI Cup quarter final.

Derry City manager Stephen Kenny is hoping the Candystripes can complete a remarkable treble after winning the eircom League Cup on Tuesday night.

Police believe dissident republicans were responsible for an attack on the vice-chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board as he watched a football match in a Derry bar.

Derry City can claim the first piece of a domestic treble tonight when they face UCD in the eircom League Cup final at Belfield Park.

THE first silverware of the domestic season is up for grabs tonight when UCD play host to Premier Division title aspirants Derry City in the final of the eircom League Cup (7.45pm — Setanta Sports).

UCD winger Patrick McWalter believes that the next five days are the most important of the season for the students.

Shelbourne will be looking for revenge for their eircom League Cup elimination by UCD when the two teams meet at Tolka Park.

FOLLOWING a review of the Setanta Cup by the Football Association of Ireland, the Irish Football Association and sponsors, Setanta Sports, eight teams will play in next year’s competition.

The eircom League Cup winners will compete in an expanded Setanta Cup next season, it has been announced today.

Shelbourne and UCD go head-to-head in the eircom League Cup semi-final tonight at Tolka Park with silverware in both club’s sights.

Having beaten St Patrick’s Athletic in the eircom League Cup on Monday, Shelbourne will be hoping to make it a double on Friday evening in the eircom Premier Division.

HAVING scored eight goals in their last two games, Cork City may find it more difficult to break down Longford Town in tonight’s eircom League Cup quarter-final at Turner’s Cross (k.o 7:45pm).

New Shelbourne signing Alan Reynolds is in line to make his debut tonight in the eircom League Cup quarterfinal clash with St Patrick’s Athletic at Tolka Park.

UCD manager Pete Mahon will once again field a team of Under 21 players when they face Waterford United in the eircom League Cup quarterfinal at Belfield Park.

Derry City have beaten Galway United in Pool C of the Eircom League Cup tonight.

Shelbourne will be looking to end a run of seven matches without a victory when they face struggling first-division side Kildare County at Tolka Park in the eircom League Cup.

Bohemians will rest a number of players for tonight’s eircom League Cup clash against St Patrick’s Athletic at Dalymount Park.

Waterford United caretaker manager Giles Cheevers faces very little time to settle into his new role following the departure of Alan Reynolds yesterday.