VIDEO: Liam Kearney’s tale of two FAI Cup finals

At the age of 32 and on his third time round with Cork City, Liam Kearney knows that he’s not guaranteed to see action at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow but should John Caulfield call on the veteran — as he has done 11 times already this season — he’ll be availing of a member of an elite group within his squad who has experience of both good days and bad in an FAI Cup final.

The bad day came first, in 2005, when an exceptional City side, in which Kearney was a wing wonder, was denied the double by Drogheda United, having lifted the league trophy just two weeks earlier.

Was it a case that the champions had simply gone off the boil by the time the cup decider came ‘round?