Dublin City to travel with new keeper

Dublin City will have new goalkeeper Barry Ryan in the squad traveling to the south east tonight to take on Waterford United at the RSC.

Former Shamrock Rovers and UCD keeper Ryan signed for the eircom League bottom club on Tuesday, three weeks after completing a nine-month suspension for doping offences.

City manager John Gill said he believes Ryan, 25, is one of the best goalkeepers in the league but will leave it until late before deciding whether he gives Ryan the nod for a début or keeps Brendan Kennedy between the posts, while Robbie Horgan recovers from a wrist injury.

Gill will be without midfielder Don Tierney, who picked up an ankle knock in last week’s 2-1 win over Longford Town and he has decided not to throw Ryan’s fellow new boy Peter Hynes into the fray just yet, after he joined from Aston Villa on Tuesday, which means Phil Hughes and Gary O’Neill should continue in the forward line.

Waterford can go third in the Premier Division if they win tonight, and will be buoyed at having arrested their slide towards the wrong end of the table with a fighting draw at Bohemians last Friday.

Wayne Fitzgerald (knee) and Vinny Sullivan (groin) are unavailable, but skipper John Frost returns to the defence having served a one-match ban.