Teenager Glen McAuley was sprung from the bench to score his first goal for St Patrick’s Athletic, who had to come behind to put First Division Bray Wanderers out of the FAI Cup at Richmond Park last night.

Shamrock Rovers reignited their title challenge with this comfortable Dublin derby win over St Pat’s.

Kevin Toner’s first-half winner stretched St Patrick’s Athletic unbeaten run to four games as they dominated at the UCD Bowl.

This was scrappy, tense and far from impressive.

Winless Finn Harps remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier Division as St Pat’s notched only their second win on the road thanks to a first-half strike from Conor Clifford and a disputed second-half penalty from Mikey Drennan in Ballybofey.

In a week that began in abject defeat to Derry City at the same venue, St Patrick’s produced one of their best displays of the campaign back at Richmond Park to mark the news on Thursday that they look to have a back door entry into the Europa League this summer.

Keith Buckley’s first-half strike got Bohemians back to winning ways as St Patrick’s Athletic’s worrying slump continued at Dalymount Park.

"I was always going to come back to Pat's, a club that is very close to my heart."

As the fresh paint dries across Cork City, a massive security operation has kicked in and traffic restrictions will be in place from early morning for the visit of Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

For residents of the small village of Bridgend, British prime ministerial statements made in the distant Westminster Parliament are usually an irrelevant affair.

The Court of Appeal has ordered that a man be retried for one of two murders, after finding that the trial judge in one of his trials, should have simply said ‘yes’ in response to a question from the jury.

People living along Ireland's border are gripped by trepidation and fear in the countdown to the UK's referendum, business chiefs have said.

It was Damien Duff, speaking earlier this week in Dublin, who floated the notion of Ireland perhaps ‘doing a Leicester’ at Euro 2016 — at least in terms of narrowing the gap with teams deemed to be their superiors, like group opponents Belgium and Italy.

Tyrone 1-22 Derry 1-17 (AET): Derry assistant manager Tony Scullion defended Damian Barton after the Oak Leaf boss was sent to the stand for getting involved in a brawl during Saturday night’s dramatic McKenna Cup final.

St. Patrick’s Athletic 3 Galway United 1

Liam Buckley has conceded defeat in the battle with Shamrock Rovers to secure the services of Damien Duff.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Skonto Riga 2 (Skonto win 4-1 on aggregate)

Skonto Riga 2 St Patrick’s Athletic 1: Liam Buckley was looking on the upside last night despite his St Patrick’s Athletic side losing their Europa League first leg tie away to Skonto Riga.

St Patrick’s Athletic 2 Shamrock Rovers 1: Holders St Patrick’s Athletic kept their cup ambitions alive when defeating local rivals Shamrock Rovers by 2-1 in their FAI Cup second round encounter at Richmond Park last night.

Ireland’s great festival of scents, colours, and flavours was officially opened by President Michael D Higgins yesterday.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Dundalk 2: Daryl Horgan netted twice to ensure Dundalk maintained their unbeaten start to the season as they confidently overcame 10-man St Patrick’s Athletic last night.

Telltale Games announced that the fourth episode of its Game of Thrones series will be released next week. In the meantime, the first trailer should whet your appetite.

Cork City 1 St Patrick’s Athletic 1 - St Patrick’s Athletic win 5-3 on penalties: Late substitute Chris Forrester, who was only introduced for the penalty shoot-out, converted the winning penalty as St Pat’s edged Cork City to qualify for the semi-finals of the EA Sports Cup at Turners Cross last night.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Shamrock Rovers 0: The spoils were shared between St Patrick’s Athletic and Shamrock Rovers at Richmond Park last night.

St Patrick’s Athletic 2 Drogheda United 2

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Cork City 0: Cork City maintained their unbeaten start to the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division campaign when drawing 0-0 with 10-man St Patrick’s Athletic at Richmond Park last night.

SSE Airtricity Premier Division

Cork’s Academy Street and its adjacent Huguenot Quarter is coming out of recessionary doldrums — and is becoming a foodie quarter: a slew of new restaurants has arrived, with more to come.

FAI FORD CUP FINAL:

Bray Wanderers 2 St Patrick’s Athletic 4

St Patrick’s Athletic 1 Dundalk 0

Premier Division:

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Legia Warsaw 5 (Legia Warsaw win 6-1 on agg)

Champions League, 2nd qualifying round, 2nd leg

Legia Warsaw 1 St Patrick’s Athletic 1

UEFA Chqampions League 2nd Qualifying Round, 1st leg

Shamrock Rovers 2 St Pat’s Athletic 1

St Patrick’s Athletic 6 Drogheda United 0

St Patrick’s Athletic 3 Cork City 2

Apple — which has its European headquarters in Cork — is close to paying a record $3.2bn (€2.3bn) for Beats Electronics, which also has a Cork link.

Waterford United, who earlier this week revealed financial worries at the club, have said an agreement on revised terms and conditions has been reached with most players and staff following a meeting on Wednesday night.

St Patrick’s Athletic midfielder Chris Forrester landed a near 50-yard volley in his side’s 4-0 rout away at Drogheda United tonight.