Champions-elect Cork City were beaten away from home for the first time all season and they shipped three goals for the first time too as Shamrock Rovers repeated their EA Sports Cup, semi-final victory over the same opposition at Tallaght Stadium tonight.

Ryan Delaney will be staying at Cork City until the end of the season.

Cork City 2 Bray Wanderers 1: 11 wins out of 11 and now 12 points clear at the top: with a third of the season gone, Cork City’s astonishing 2017 just keeps on getting better and better.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Limerick 2: Limerick showed no adverse affects from their managerial upheaval during the week as interim boss Willie Boland’s side came away from Richmond Park with three big points.

SSE Airtricity Premier Division

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Galway United 0 St Patrick’s Athletic 0 (St Patrick’s Athletic won 4-3 on penalties): St Patrick’s Athletic manager Liam Buckley hailed goalkeeper Conor O’Malley as a star of the future after the Mayo native saved two penalties in the shoot-out to hand the Super Saints the EA Sports Cup in Eamonn Deacy Park on Saturday night.

Dundalk 3 Galway Utd 0

Derry City 0 Shamrock Rovers 0: Keith Fahey may have blotted his copybook at the Brandywell last night having been sent off, but Shamrock Rovers will not be too unhappy with their former international as they took a point in Derry.

Drogheda United 0 Bohemians 1: Marc Griffin struck for 10-man Bohemians in the 88th minute as they took full points against Drogheda in a controversial match at United Park.

Cork City will go to Oriel Park next week knowing that one point will make them champions.

Derry City 2 Shamrock Rovers 0

FAI FORD CUP THIRD ROUND:

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

Malin turned the Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC on its head with a spectacular win over champions St Eunan’s in Buncrana on Saturday night.

St Patrick’s Athletic 1 Shelbourne 0

Bray Wanderers 1 Shelbourne 1

Substitute David McDaid hit a second half winner as Derry City bounced back from two league defeats and their Europa League exit to Trabzonspor midweek to beat Limerick 1-0 at Thomond Park to move back up to third place in the Premier Division table.

Limerick 0 Cork City 0

Dundalk 2 Waterford United 2

UCD 2 Bohemians 2

Drogheda United 1Wexford Youths 0

Missing a proverbial sitter and twice hitting the woodwork, Bohemians had to settle for a point on a frustrating Airtricity Premier League night at Dalymount Park.

Chris Shields’ 86th minute header earned struggling Dundalk a share of the spoils with Derry City at Oriel Park last night.

UCD stay rooted to the foot of the Premier Division despite earning a draw against fellow strugglers Dundalk at a windswept Belfield Bowl last night.

Shamrock Rovers salvaged a late Airtricity Premier League point when a Gary Twigg goal earned them a share of the honours with a battling Bray Wanderers side in a tense battle at the Carlisle grounds 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.

Goalkeeper Shane Finnegan was the Drogheda hero on his debut with two saves in the penalty shoot-out as Mick Cooke’s side won through to the EA Sports Cup third round.

BOBBY Ahern, Kinsale, Co. Cork won the Dr. A.E.J. Went 2011 Engraved Plaque for his 1.93 kg. Gilthead Bream caught at Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork on 3rd September last.

The family of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane has been granted a judicial review of the decision not to hold a public inquiry into his death.

A bid to overturn the bankruptcy of Sean Quinn, once the richest man in Ireland, will be heard next month, a court in the North has ruled.

FRESH from Monday’s impressive display in beating Bohemians, UCD oozed confidence as they equalled their biggest win of the season.

CORK CITY maintained their strong promotion challenge, thanks to a second-half goal from Shane Duggan which gave them a narrow victory over bottom side Salthill Devon at Turner’s Cross last night.

SHELBOURNE were obliged to come from behind against Cork City to maintain their lead in the First Division, although the Leesiders had the consolation of leaving Tolka Park with their unbeaten record intact.

JOHN KIELY last night expressed surprise and disappointment at not being re-appointed as Waterford senior football manager.

Setting the pace on the first of today’s eight stages, Cavan’s, Patrick Elliott (Subaru WRC), who was co-driven by Paul Goodman, won the Circuit of Munster Rally, the fifth round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship.

Tie-breaks were very much the theme on the Tralee based Fels Point Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally, the second round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship.