St Patrick’s Athletic 3 Cork City 2

Over a quarter of current professional footballers suffer from depression or anxiety, a new study has found.

Stephen McGuinness, secretary of the Players’ Football Association of Ireland (PFAI), is adamant that serious barriers have to be broken down to facilitate players coming out as gay.

Roy Keane has helped accelerate the PFAI’s fundraising efforts for Gary O’Neill.

Limerick FC 2 Shamrock Rovers 0

Sligo Rovers' UEFA Champions League hopes came to an expected end in Norway as they lost 2-0 to Ole Gunnar Solskjær's Molde, losing their second qualifying round tie on a 3-0 aggregate.

AIRTRICITY LEAGUE ROUNDUP

Cork City 1 Shamrock Rovers 2

Cork City 1 Shamrock Rovers 2

Drogheda United 1 Shamrock Rovers 7

AIRTRICITY LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION

UCD 2 Shamrock Rovers 0

Cork City 2 Shamrock Rovers 2 (Shamrock Rovers win 3-3 on away goals)

Shamrock Rovers 1 Cork City 1

AIRTRICITY LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION

Rory Patterson made a telling return from injury with two penalties as Derry City came from behind to beat Dundalk 3-1 at Oriel Park.

The 2013 campaign gets underway later tonight.

St Patrick’s Athletic 1 Cork City 0

Newly-crowned champions Sligo Rovers have, as expected, dominated the PFAI Premier Division Team of the Year with five places but there was no place for any member of EA Sports Cup and Europa League bound Drogheda United in the side.

Bohemians 2 St Patrick’s Athletic 3

Shelbourne put their poor display in losing at home to Derry City last week behind them as they frustrated champions Shamrock Rovers to earn a 2-2 draw at Tallaght Stadium.

St Patrick’s Athletic 3 Derry City 0

Sligo Rovers beat Bohemians 3-1 at the Showgrounds to maintain their relentless march to a first league title in 35 years as they opened up a nine points lead at the top of the Premier Division table.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Sligo Rovers 0

In spite of a generally improved performance from the first leg last week, it mattered little in the final analysis as St. Patrick’s duly bowed out of the Europa League at the AWD-Arena in Hannover last night.

Some people think it’s all Hannover… it is now.

Christy Fagan scored an extra-time winner to delight Richmond Park last night as St Patrick’s advanced to a lucrative Europa League third round meeting with Bundesliga giants Hannover 96.

Christy Fagan scored an extra-time winner as St. Patrick’s Athletic beat Široki Brijeg 2-1 to delight Richmond Park last night and advance, on a 3-2 aggregate, to a lucrative Europa League third round meeting with Bungeliga giants Hannover 96.

St. Patrick’s Athletic had to be satisfied with a point against bottom club UCD in yesterday’s entertaining Premier Division clash at the Belfield Bowl.

Drogheda United, down to 10 men for most of the second half after the dismissal of Ryan Brennan, leapfrogged St Patrick’s Athletic into second place in the Premier Division with victory at Richmond Park yesterday.

Drogheda United added further credence to their unlikely title credentials with a 2-0 win over St Patrick’s Athletic at Richmond Park today to leapfrog the Inchicore side into second in the table, six points behind leaders Sligo Rovers.

Goalkeeper Reyaard Pieterse was the hero with two brilliant penalty saves in the shoot-out as Rovers advanced to the semi-finals of the EA Sports Cup.

Raffaele Cretaro and Danny North both helped themselves to a double as Sligo Rovers ended Derry City’s reign as EA Sports Cup holders to ease themselves into the semi-finals with a convincing 4-0 win at the Showgrounds.

Derry City head to Turner’s Cross for tonight’s Premier Division clash with Cork City desperate for a win to stay in touch with the leading pack in the Airtricity Premier Division.

St Patrick’s Athletic look to continue their unbeaten run as they host Cork City in what should be a keenly contested tie at Richmond Park tonight.

Cork City boss Tommy Dunne will be looking for a fourth win in five league games when his side travel to take on unbeaten St Patrick’s Athletic in the pick of tonight’s Airtricity Premier Division fixtures at Richmond Park (7.45pm).

Derry City will bid to end a five-game winless streak in the league when they host unbeaten St Patrick’s Athletic in a televised encounter at the Brandywell this evening.

St Patrick’s Athletic maintained their unbeaten start to the campaign with a deserved win over UCD in their Airtricity League Premier Division encounter at Inchicore last night.

Shamrock Rovers had to come from two goals down to salvage a point from a frenetic 2-2 draw with second from bottom Bray Wanderers at the Carlisle Grounds.

Having scored five against champions Shamrock Rovers last week, St Patrick’s left their shooting boots behind as they were held by Drogheda at Hunky Dorys Park.

St Patrick’s Athletic overwhelmed holders and Dublin rivals Shamrock Rovers in the Airtricity League Premier Division encounter at Inchicore last night.

FORMER Shamrock Rovers assistant manager Trevor Croly takes a 19-man squad of out of work League of Ireland players to Oslo this morning to play two hour-long games on Friday, in the second annual winter tournament organised by FIFPro, the international players’ union.

Hamilton 0 Rangers 1

WOLVES cruised into the fourth round of the FA Cup after brushing aside Doncaster’s relatively feeble challenge last night.