Shamrock Rovers 2 St Pat’s Athletic 1

SSE AIRTRICITY PREMIER DIVISION

Shamrock Rovers 2 Drogheda United 0

Drogheda United 1 Sligo Rovers 1

Bohemians 1 Shamrock Rovers 0

Cork City 4 Cliftonville 0

Waterford United 0 Dundalk 2

Bray Wanderers 1 Shamrock Rovers 3

Jason Byrne and Darren Meenan were sensationally sent off as this clash reached boiling point in the second-half at Richmond Park last night.

Turner’s Cross has been a place of real entertainment so far this season, with 27 goals in eight league games, but last night, with arch-rivals Shelbourne in town, the fervent Cork support were forced to endure their first blank of the season.

Evan McMillan’s first goal of the season beganBohemians’ healing process following their Europa League humbling at Thór Akureyri.

Second-half goals by Paul Crowley and Peter Hynes secured a hard-earned victory for Drogheda against Bray at a blustery Hunky Dorys Park.

Bohemians finally got their first goal and their first win of the league season but Cork City’s woes continue on their return to the Premier Division.

Drogheda United recorded their second away win in a row when seeing off Bray Wanderers in a tense six-goal Premier Division encounter at the Carlisle Grounds last night.

Some of Ireland’s top referees were appointed to European action yesterday.

IRISH referee Alan Kelly described his night at Real Madrid’s Bernabeu on Tuesday as “a dream come true” after taking charge of Real Madrid’s 6-2 hammering of Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League.

A MISERABLE season for Galway United ended in relegation last night as Monaghan United ended their 10 year absence from the top flight in emphatic fashion in Terryland Park.

SLIGO ROVERS were in cruise control at Hunky Dorys Park as they took over top spot in the Premier Division without having to hit top gear against the hosts.

IF they were to get their season back on track, St Pat’s were going to do it against Drogheda — a side they had comfortably beaten twice earlier in the season.

BRAY WANDERERS ended a run of four successive league defeats to move into sixth place in the Premier Division table with a narrow victory over a battling UCD at Belfield last night.

RECENT signing Tiarnan Mulvenna scored in each half to hand Drogheda their first home league win of the season — but they had to work hard for it after playing the final 13 minutes with 10 men.

AS comfortable a win as was expected brought a difficult week to a satisfactory end for Shamrock Rovers as the champions maintained their three point lead at the top of the table in inflicting a 12th league defeat in succession on bottom side Galway.

GRAHAM CUMMINS grabbed his 11th goal of the season as high-flying Cork City saw off Premier Division St Pat’s in a pulsating EA Sports Cup quarter-final at Turner’s Cross yesterday.

Galway 0 Dundalk 3

A DOMINANT second-half display marked by three goals saw St Patrick’s Athletic get their new campaign off to a winning start in Terryland Park last night.

A 21-year-old Limerick man accused of murdering another Limerick man in the city four years ago claimed a garda was lying when he said he didn’t find the accused at home that night.

SLIGO ROVERS go into tonight’s draw for the FAI Ford Cup semi-finals with the three other Airtricity League Premier Division sides after Saturday’s 3-0 defeat of First Division leaders Monaghan United at The Showgrounds.

ALTHOUGH last night’s tie was to be a wake for a lost club, Cork City supporters may have instead witnessed the death rattle of Bray Wanderers’ survival hopes at Turner’s Cross

Sligo Rovers 3 Drogheda United 3