Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne top the billing Friday night

Dundalk, on the back of shocking Shamrock Rovers last Friday, travel to Galway United with new boss Jon Daly sitting in the Eamonn Deacy Park stand.

LOI PREVIEW: A third meeting of the season between Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne – but the first at Tallaght – earns top billing in Friday’s League of Ireland schedule. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

A third meeting of the season between Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne – but the first at Tallaght – earns top billing in Friday’s League of Ireland schedule.

The four points Damien Duff’s side claimed from the champions in those two Tolka Park meetings account for their buffer over Derry City at the summit.