Dundalk go extra inch against Cork City to realise double dream

Cork City 0 Dundalk 1: Class usually tells in the end, and it did again at the Aviva Stadium yesterday when the League of Ireland’s best player, Richie Towell, scored the goal which gave the League of Ireland’s best team, Dundalk, the 2015 FAI Cup — and, with it, the third double in the club’s history.

For Cork City, having pushed the final all the way to extra-time, it meant more heartbreak at the hands of Stephen Kenny’s team who relegated them to the silver medal position in the cup having already done so twice in succession in the league.

There might not have been much in it on the scoreboard yesterday but, over two seasons, that kind of record tells its own tale of the Lilywhites’ gold-plated superiority, not just over John Caulfield’s men, but every other side in the domestic game.