Mahon turns focus to Europe after Pat’s draw

DEREK DOYLE, their match-winner in Europe last week, maintained his scoring flush with a well-taken double, but it wasn’t enough as St Pat’s failed to get the win required to regain the leadership of the Premier Division yesterday.

Boss Pete Mahon now turns his focus to Thursday’s Europa League fixture with Shakhter Karagandy in Kazakhstan which will entail a potential 24 hours of travel.

To add to his problems, injuries will deprive Mahon of top scorer Danny North (hamstring) and midfielder Dave Mulcahy (knee), neither of whom will make the 10,000-kilometre round trip while three others players have had to pay colleagues to cover for them in their day jobs.