Cork City and Dundalk show League of Ireland can prosper

The Dundalk and Cork City players in European action this week don’t just represent their clubs — they represent the League of Ireland.

As such, their recent results represent an upturn in the fortunes of the domestic game of a kind not seen for many years.

One consequence will be a rise in the national league’s Uefa coefficient, the best measure of the health and wellbeing of Irish football — a better measure, in my opinion, than the fortunes of our national team.