St Patrick’s Athletic will be missing influential centre-half Jason Gavin as they travel north to take on Dundalk at Oriel Park tonight (kick-off 7.45pm).

HARD to believe but it’s barely 18 months since that memor- able Friday night when Paul Doolin leaned against a wall outside the dressing room in United Park and, having just secured the title for Drogheda United, sought to play down giddy expectations that the club might go on to dominate the League of Ireland for some years to come.

DROGHEDA UNITED live to fight another day after the High Court yesterday ruled that the club could be taken out of examinership.

FIRST-TEAM players at embattled Drogheda United are planning to boycott Friday night’s eircom League Premier Division game against St Patrick’s Athletic at United Park.

Paul Doolin has signed a new two-year deal with eircom Premier Division side Drogheda United, keeping him at the Boyneside club until November 2006.