Karl Sheppard sublime as Cork blow Derry away

Cork City turned in their best performance of the season to make it a Great Friday for their fans at Turner’s Cross last night as they blew Derry City away to move to within a point off leaders Dundalk at the top of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division.

Karl Sheppard helped himself to a brace and John O’Flynn got off the mark for the season as John Caulfield’s side were simply too hot for Derry to handle in front of another bumper crowd of more than 5,000.

City were still without Colin Healy, who also missed out on last Saturday’s win in Bray with a slight hamstring strain, and Caulfield made one change to that side, with Garry Buckley returning from injury and he started in place of Dan Murray.