Ramblers miss their chance despite Falvey’s late strike

Cobh Ramblers 1 Dundalk 1

Falvey struck on 87 minutes when forcing the ball home in a right scramble in the Dundalk penalty area.

Dundalk had looked like holding onto their first half lead given to them when John Flanagan headed home Simon Kelly’s cross.

Keeper Aaron Shanahan had made a superb double stop to keep out efforts from Robert Brosnan and Michael O’Shea, just minutes before Falvey finally scored to earn Cobh their point.

Kilkenny City 2 Kildare Co 0

KILKENNY CITY made it a remarkable tenth win from eleven games to move up to fourth place and into real promotion contention for the first time.

Tadgh Purcell headed Cats in front from Paul Gannon’s cross on 27 minutes.

Cats continued to run the game and finally added to that on 80 minutes when winger Joey Courtney curled a shot to the back of the net from the edge of the area.

County were reduced to ten men a minute from the end when defender Alan McDermott was shown a straight red card for a two-footed tackle on Brain McCarthy.

Pat Scully’s Cats now travel to leaders Sligo Rovers, who were surprisingly held by bottom placed Athlone on Friday, next Saturday for what should be an intriguing game.