Cork City 4 Maynooth University Town 0

They’re not quite in holiday mode, but Cork City will take to the beach today as they begin their Europa League campaign, and it’s a boy from Brazil who threatens to derail the European adventure.

Cork City needed extra-time before eventually seeing-off battling Wilton United to capture the Munster Senior Cup for the first time since 2008 at Turner’s Cross last night.

Cork City boss John Caulfield may have to plan without Karl Sheppard for a “couple of weeks” as the player deals with a troubling knee injury.

The performance was more industrious than inspirational but Cork City continued their incredible start to the season, marching to the EA Sports Cup semi-finals with a deserved win at Turner’s Cross yesterday.

AS Roma 1 Cork City 0 (Roma win 4-1 on aggregate): As David Coffey, who spent the previous five minutes down injured, risked life and limb to fling himself across goal and deny Emanuele Spinozzi Roma’s second in the dying embers of yesterday’s game, he summed up Cork City Under 19s’ admirable European campaign.

Cork City 1 AS Roma 3: Edoardo Soleri’s 86th-minute strike spared AS Roma’s blushes, and stole a famous result from Cork City as the Leesiders almost trumped the odds, but not the clock, in a 3-1 defeat in front of a bumper crowd at Turner’s Cross.

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