Deegan out for Bohs

Bohemians must plan without influential midfielder Gary Deegan as Pat Fenlon’s side travel to Oriel Park to face Dundalk tonight, kick-off 8.00pm.

Former Galway and Longford star Deegan is suspended, while Glen Cronin, Jason McGuinness, Anto Murphy and Sean Byrne also miss out through injury.

Michael Daly is Dundalk’s only injury concern as he suffered a head injury earlier this week in training but he should be available for selection.

And boss Sean Connor hopes to have new signing Peter Cherrie in the squad if his international clearance is received on time.

Connor said: “The first goal will be very, very important. We know how difficult Bohemians will be to break down, but we feel if we can get in front, it will certainly give us something to hold on to and to keep this run going.

“I think what is exciting tonight is that the game is live on television, so hopefully both sets of players on show will give a good advertisement for League of Ireland football.

“There’s a lot of people that try to detract from the quality of play, but there’s no doubt in my mind that this league has got better year on year.”