O’Neill leads City charge

A Davin O’Neill hat-trick made it a lucky Friday the 13th for Cork City last night as Tommy Dunne’s side finally got their first league win of the season after an emphatic victory over 10-man Monaghan United at Turners Cross.

Both sides went into the tie rooted to the bottom of the table with only two points from six games and with identical goals scored and conceded. And City will feel they can kick on from here as two goals within three first half minutes put them on their way to a confidence boosting victory.

Both managers made wholesale changes from the sides that exited the EA Sports Cup on Easter Monday. City boss Tommy Dunne, who has been chopping and changing in recent weeks as he looks for a winning formation, made six changes from the side that went down so meekly to Limerick 3-0 as he started with a front pairing of Vinny Sullivan and O’Neill.