Derry cut to the chase

Derry City 3 Cork City 1

In doing so they inflicted the Leesiders' first league defeat since April. Rarely has a top two clash so thoroughly lived up to its billing.

Cork City manager Damian Richardson, conceding his side might be experiencing a little battle fatigue, said: "The defining period of the match was when we did not take our chances after we equalised. Derry took theirs and we've got to accept the result."