Shamrock Rovers

Sligo Rovers 0 Derry City 0 Shamrock Rovers are champions for a third year running as Derry City failed to win at Sligo Rovers this evening. City had to ...

Ruaidhri Higgins made a double change on 63 minutes, sending on both Michael Duffy and Jamie McGonigle and it almost resulted in an immediate goal. It took Sligo Rovers a good half hour to offer any sort of threat and they could well have taken the lead only for Brian Maher to deny them twice in the space of 20 seconds. Derry City should have gone ahead 10 minutes into the second half.

The draw means that Shamrock Rovers has captured their third title on the trot. It has been an adventurous season for the Hoops and with Derry hot on their ...

The draw means that the most points Derry can finish on is 72, with Shamrock Rovers already securing 73 points. It has been an adventurous season for the Hoops and with Derry hot on their heels for the entire season. The draw means that Shamrock Rovers has captured their third title on the trot.

Shamrock Rovers are champions of Ireland once again, and with two games to spare, as Derry City's failure to win away to Sligo Rovers means that the Hoops ...

It's got us to this point, to being the best team in the country and just stay with it no matter what happens and when we went one down, you could see there was no panic, no deer in the headlights moments," Bradley said after last week's win over St Pat's put them within sight of the league, Rovers now able to enjoy Thursday's European tie at home to Belgian side Gent without the stress of the title race. We finished the game really strong and they were hanging on, but it just wasn't to be. "First half I know we had a bit of the ball, we weren't great, there wasn't loads of clear cut chances in the game, Brian Maher made two really good saves in the first half.

The manager nearly wasn't there to see it out, as it took intervention from major shareholder Denis Desmond in May to persuade Stephen Bradley to snub an ...

Danny Mandroiu did what Bradley didn’t by joining Lincoln City in the summer and they even survived a long layoff for defensive giant Pico Lopes, through a serious knee injury, to last the distance. Acting swiftly in the summer by capturing Daniel Cleary – another of the Dundalk alumni – was a masterstroke. Rovers possessed enough quality to virtually lead from the front till the end, absorbing a couple of blips, to bulldoze towards their hat-trick. Still, a 16-point margin over St Patrick’s Athletic underlined the gap and hopes of closing it were damaged when their young manager was enticed back to his beloved Dundalk for this season. Presenting one of Fenlon’s junior staff members his first senior role deviated from their tradition of snaring established names and uncertainty clouded the decision in the first couple of years. The three-in-a-row of titles Shamrock Rovers entrusted Stephen Kenny with completing in 2012 was delivered alone in full by Stephen Bradley.