Cork City and Dundalk bank on Euro cash

Last night the League of Ireland’s top two produced the latest episode of their ongoing anthology and there’ll be plenty more chapters to run.

This is the fourth season on the bounce Cork City and Dundalk have occupied first and second spots in the table and they could yet conclude the campaign in November by facing each other at Lansdowne Road in the FAI Cup final for the third year running.

In a league landscape suppressed by the lack of investment from the governing body, especially through a prizemoney fund culled in recent years by 80 per cent, the promised land of Champions League qualification brings with it a cash injection which immediately affords a competitive advantage.