OBITUARY: Republic of Ireland player and manager Liam Tuohy

Ireland’s football trendsetter across so many eras, writes Liam Mackey

Dundalk’s heroics in Warsaw this week saw Stephen Kenny’s men come so close to going where no League of Ireland club has gone before, by qualifying for the group stages of the Champions League.

But their brush with glory was not wholly without precedent in the history of Irish club football in Europe, the Lilywhites’ prodigious effort in trying to overturn a two-goal first leg deficit against Legia Warsaw recalling the arguably even more daunting challenge faced by Shamrock Rovers away to Bayern Munich in the old European Cup Winners’ Cup back in 1966.