'It's been sickening watching Dundalk winning trophies', says Cork City boss John Caulfield

When time was finally called, Mark McNulty threw himself to his knees and raised his arms towards the darkened Dublin sky, fists clenched in celebration, writes Brendan O’Brien of the Irish Examiner.

The club’s story, and his part in it, is far from done, but there was nonetheless a sense of culmination for the one player in yesterday’s line-up who was there six years ago when Cork City Foras Co-Op played their first ever game in the first division.