Cork City continue to edge towards the Airtricity League Premier Division title but they had to work hard before finally seeing off a battling relegation-threatened Finn Harps at Finn Park last night.

FC MIDTJYLLAND 6 - 1 Derry City: Derry City suffered a heavy defeat in Denmark last night — their worst in European competition as a League of Ireland club — Kenny Shiels side no match for a quality FC Midtiylland.

Cork City can focus their attentions on Thursday’s night game in Estonia against Levadia Tallinn, John Caulfield’s men securing what was a hard-earned victory over a lively and determined Derry City at Maginn Park.

Derry City 3 Shamrock Rovers 1: A brace of stunning strikes from Derry City’s Aaron McEneff put this game out of the reach of Shamrock Rovers at Maginn Park.

SSE Airtricity Premier Division

Cuala took the honours in the All-Ireland Club hurling final with surprising ease, easing past Ballyea of Clare in a dour struggle.

Limerick FC 1 St Patrick’s Athletic 4: St Patrick’s Athletic boss Liam Buckley lauded his side after they came from behind to retain the EA Sports Cup at a sold-out Markets Fields in Limerick on Saturday.

St Patrick’s Athletic 2 Limerick 0: St Patrick’s Athletic progressed to the quarter-finals of the FAI Cup with a 2-0 win over Limerick at Richmond Park last night.

Gleb Rassadkin’s first-half strike ended St Patrick’s Athletic’s Europa League hopes on a frustrating night for the Inchicore club at Richmond Park.

Christy Fagan worked the oracle once again with a crucial goal in Europe as St Patrick’s Athletic grabbed a battling draw in Belarus last night.

St Patrick’s Athletic 1 AS Jeunesse Esch 0

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Shamrock Rovers 2: Goals in either half from Brandon Miele and Gary Shaw gave Shamrock Rovers the points from this Dublin derby at Richmond Park.

Cork City 1 St Patrick’s Athletic 0: Karl Sheppard’s third goal in three games saw Cork City move up to second in the SSE Airtricity League premier division table after a narrow win over St Pat’s at Turners Cross last night.

St Patrick’s Athletic 1 Sligo Rovers 1: Brendan Clarke kept St Patrick’s in the match at one end before Christy Fagan worked the oracle at the other once again to deprive Sligo Rovers of a first win of the season.

St Patrick’s Athletic 0 Dundalk 4

Shamrock Rovers 0 St Patrick’s Athletic 2: Goals in either half from Billy Dennehy and Christy Fagan gave Pat’s all three points from this entertaining Dublin derby at Tallaght Stadium. Dennehy opened the scoring as the game entered first half injury time with Fagan scoring the second early in the second half.

St Patrick’s Athletic 3 Bohemians 0

Longford Town 0 St Patrick’s Athletic 1

Cork City 0 Derry City 0: Cork City dropped two valuable points in their bid to finish second in the Airtricity League Premier Division as Derry City earned a well-deserved point at Turners Cross last night to ease their relegation fears.

Cork City 3 Derry City 0: A Ross Gaynor thunderbolt was the highlight as Cork City set up an FAI Cup semi-final clash with Bray Wanderers at the Carlisle Grounds after three late goals settled this quarter-final replay at a wet Turner’s Cross last night.

Derry City 1 Cork City 1: Derry City and Cork must meet again at Turner’s Cross on Monday night following this thriller at a rain-lashed Brandywell last night.

Derry City 0 Dundalk 2: Dundalk took full advantage of Cork City’s shock slip-up when boosting their back-to-back title hopes with a win at the Brandywell.

Bohemians 4 Derry City 2: He may have got a vote of confidence from the club chairman earlier in the week, but the pressure on Derry City manager Peter Hutton mounts as their run without a league win stretched to 12 games at Dalymount Park last night.

Derry City 0 Cork City 2: Cork City limbered up for next week’s Europa League match with another impressive victory at the Brandywell to remain on the heels of leaders Dundalk.

Dundalk 1 Derry City 0: John Mountney kept Dundalk’s 100% home record intact with a scrappy late winner to break Derry City’s resistence at Oriel Park last night.

It was an eventful day for the Irish at The Den on Saturday as Derby continued to stumble towards a play-off spot after twice coming from two goals down to draw 3-3 at struggling Millwall. 

Derry City 1  Bohemians 2

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.

Cork City turned in their best performance of the season to make it a Great Friday for their fans at Turner’s Cross last night as they blew Derry City away to move to within a point off leaders Dundalk at the top of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division.

Dundalk 5 Derry City 0

Limerick FC 0 Derry City 4

Derry City 0 Cork City 1

Shakhtyor Soligorsk 5 Derry City 1 (Shakhytor win 6-1 on aggregate)

Derry City 2 Dundalk 2

THE Republic of Ireland’s hopes of retaining the U18 Centenary Shield ended last night at the Oval as cross-border rivals Northern Ireland took another step towards the title.

Elevated levels of lead were found in the tapwater of four areas of Co Clare after the local Council increased monitoring in recent weeks.