Healy primed to pitch in for City

Colin Healy is prepared to put his aversion to Dundalk’s artificial pitch aside tonight for the sake of hunting his first league winners’ medal at the age of 34.

The Cork City midfielder had just turned 21 when his first and last piece of silverware was collected, flanking Neil Lennon and Paul Lambert in a Celtic side victorious over Kilmarnock in the 2001 Scottish League Cup final.

Misfortune, in the shape of two years out of game due to successive broken legs, conspired against him adding to that sole medal, yet the concluding day of the title race represents a stage for redemption.