Late brace gets Rovers off to winning start

Shamrock Rovers 2 Dundalk 1

Shamrock Rovers were a goal down before Jamie Duffy capitalised on a mix -up in the visitors’ defence to side-foot the ball past Chris Bennion with just 15 minutes of this tense encounter remaining.

With 24 Premier Division titles and 33 FAI Cup wins between them, this was the game that many thought would never take place in the First Division.