After 60 years, St Patrick's Athletic and Shamrock Rovers fight for top again

Shamrock Rovers once again lead the Premier Division and are building towards another period of League of Ireland dominance. St Patrick's Athletic welcome the champions to Inchicore on Saturday hoping to prove they are now the strongest challengers to their crown. Amazingly, it's 65 years since these Dublin rivals were the country's top dogs, and roles were reversed

Roberto Lopes of Shamrock Rovers in action against Ronan Coughlan of St Patrick's Athletic during last season's meeting between the sides. This term, the pair are the top two in the country - the first time this has been the case for 60 years.

The build-up to the game was dominated by two things: outrage from the Catholic Church and debates over the merits of League of Ireland players being picked at international level.

This was October 1955.