Brennan strike leaves Rebels reeling

SO, no fairytale ending to a tumultuous week for Cork City, as champions Bohemians maintained their lead at the top of the Premier Division with a deserved one-nil win.

Mind, it was hardly business as usual at Dalymount Park as this top three game struggled to live up to its billing, only really coming to life in the last half hour after Killian Brennan had given the home side the lead.

A couple of the bigger names from the familiar cast of characters were missing with Joe Gamble for City and Glen Crowe for Bohs only making it as far as the bench at the start. That meant that former City striker Neale Fenn, playing off Jason Byrne in the champions’ attack, came up against his old team, though there was little else about the dismal fare in the first half to evoke other memories of better games between these two teams.