FAI Cup preliminary round: Rockmount among eight non-league teams into first-round proper

Elsewhere Skerries Town also made it through as did St Michael's following their respective victories on Sunday.

INTO THE FIRST ROUND: Best of team mates Dean Rodgers and Danierl Smith of Rockmount who have been prolific in front of goal this season. Picture: Howard Crowdy

Rockmount’s penalty shootout victory at 10-man Home Farm on Sunday put them among the eight non-league teams progressing to the first-round proper of the FAI Cup.

The FAI Intermediate Cup holders prevailed 4-1 on spot-kicks after 120 minutes couldn’t separate the two sides in an absorbing stalemate at Whitehall.