Dundalk 6 St Patrick’s Athletic 0: Oriel Park might be resigned to saying goodbye to the league title this season but a rampant Dundalk showed they are going to make Cork City take it from them after a six-goal thumping of St Patrick’s Athletic last night.

Cork City can now turn their sights towards Thursday’s big Europa League clash with AEK Larnaca after yesterday’s deserved 1-0 victory over 10-man St Patrick’s Athletic saw them extend their lead at the top of the SSE Airtricity League to 12 points with two games in hand on second-placed Dundalk.

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As a new greenway opens in the southeast Dan MacCarthy hops on his bike and takes in the splendours of the Déise country

The period between his last game against Tottenham Hotspur two-and-a-half years ago and today’s meeting with the Premier League high flyers in the FA Cup has taught Owen Garvan much about the fickle nature of football.

A judge has jailed “a cowboy of the worst kind” for four months after the Co Clare man was “involved in sabotaging Irish agriculture”.

They’ve no intention of apologising for their presence at the Mardyke, no intention of writing themselves off or treating today’s fixture against UCC as merely bonus territory.

Sigerson Cup Quarter-Final: IT Carlow 0-11 UL 0-10: IT Carlow withstood a barrage of injury-time UL attacks and, indeed, a half-hour stoppage in proceedings to secure a first Sigerson Cup semi-final appearance.

The family of one of the women seen being kicked and threatened by nurses at Aras Attracta has hit out at the alleged death threats and online abuse aimed at the perpetrators, insisting they “abhor violence in every shape or form” and will not support “mob rule”.

Harry Arter had a premonition he would score against Watford, although it’s doubtful the Bournemouth midfielder could have imagined netting such a stunner in Saturday’s 1-1 Championship draw.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 2 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

I like being the captain of my own soul. I don’t like being told what to do.

A 75-year-old sacristan was spat on and slapped across the face when he told a drunken man to stop shouting in a church.

Castlebar Mitchels’ talismanic midfielder Barry Moran is free to line out against Dr Crokes in the All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final after winning his appeal for a red card suspension from the Connacht final.

Frankie Dolan is facing a lengthy ban after an alleged assault on the fourth official after last month’s Connacht Club final.

Republic of Ireland midfielder Owen Garvan would have been in Crystal Palace's 25-man Premier League squad had he shown a better attitude, according to manager Ian Holloway.

Bristol City 2 Crystal Palace 1

Crystal Palace 0 Tottenham 1

Roberto Soldado, Paulinho and Nacer Chadli all made their debuts, but there was no place in the squad for Gareth Bale as Tottenham began their Barclays Premier League campaign at Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace have tied two of their promotion heroes to new contracts.

Crystal Palace 1 Watford 0 (AET)

Crystal Palace 1 Watford 0 (AET)

Crystal Palace 2 Blackpool 2

Crystal Palace 3 Brighton 0

Crystal Palace 2 Blackburn 0

The Good

“WITH my track record?” smiled Dessie Dolan after he was asked if he fancied taking Garrycastle’s injury-time free.

A MEETING with photographer Garvan Gallagher and hearing his plan for a project with older people in Dublin 15 sounded like something I wanted to be involved in.

THE parents of little Megan Malone, who underwent life-saving treatment for a rare brain tumour in New York, have been told there is no longer any trace of cancer in her brain while tumours on her spine also appear to have completely cleared.

AARON KERNAN was incredibly honest in the bowels of the Hogan Stand yesterday evening.

THE parents of a Cork toddler, undergoing specialist treatment in New York for a brain tumour, say their wish for 2011 is their brave daughter will start playschool in September, free from disease.

ANTHONY STOKES was on fire as he gave Noel King a debut to remember as new Republic of Ireland under-21 boss.

Republic of Ireland U-21s 5 Estonia U-21s 0

Ipswich 2 Cardiff 0

Roy Keane refused to get carried away after his Ipswich Town side moved out of the Championship’s bottom three, following their 3-1 victory against Blackpool.

ROY KEANE has endured some dark days at Ipswich this season – even by his gloomy standards – but now, at last, the sun is out on the club’s season.

Republic of Ireland U-21 boss Don Givens will be forced to make changes as he attempts to end his wait for a European Championship qualifying victory in Armenia.

Don Givens has announed the Republic of Ireland U21 team to face Georgia U21 tonight.

OWEN GARVAN played a captain’s role by popping up four minutes into injury-time to seal a precious point for the Irish under-21 team against Switzerland at the RSC last night.

Republic of Ireland Under-21 1 Switzerland Under-21 1

DON GIVENS believes James McCarthy avoided the same frustrating fate of Liam Miller by opting to join Wigan ahead of more glamorous Premier League names.

TWO GOALS from Dubliner Owen Garvan helped Roy Keane’s Ipswich Town to a comfortable 3-0 victory over Waterford United in an entertaining friendly before a crowd of 3,500 at the sun-splashed RSC last night.