Cork City last the distance to claim double-double

Dundalk 1 Cork City 1 (Cork win 5-3 on pens): This was a landmark, never-to-be-forgotten day in the history of Cork City — and one of the longest, too — as the club delivered a glorious double-double.

The women’s side beat UCD Waves to win their FAI Cup final before the men stepped up to the spot, in every sense, and, in adding the cup to the league trophy, confirmed their position as the dominant force in Irish football in 2017.

Not that those bare bones headlines give the slightest sense of the extra-time drama which saw Dundalk on the brink of victory after a thumping Niclas Vemmelund header had put them in front before ever resilient Cork snatched a late equaliser through Achille Campion and then prevailed in a nerve-shredding penalty shoot-out in which Mark McNulty’s save from Michael Duffy set up Kieran Sadlier to land the killer blow.