Rovers sign goalkeeping cover for crunch play-off

Shamrock Rovers have signed former Bray Wanderers goalkeeper John Walshe as back-up after Barry Murphy was ruled out of Friday’s play-off against Dublin City with an ankle problem.

Murphy’s absence means that John Blake will start in goal for the Hoops with 35-year-old Walshe on the bench after Alan O’Neill snapped up the ’keeper on amateur forms.