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Cork City, trailing by two goals to nil from the home first leg, travel to face Rosenborg of Norway in Trondheim at 7.45pm this Thursday evening in the third qualifying round of the Europa League. In the same competition and at the same time, Burnley and their Irish contingent take on Basakschir of Turkey, having played out a scoreless draw in the first leg last week in Istanbul. There are Turf Moor starts this evening for Kevin Long, Jeff Hendrick and Stephen Ward who moves into a midfield position.

The Final of the 2018 EA Sports Cup between Derry City and Cobh Ramblers will take place at the Brandywell on Sunday the 16th September with kick-off scheduled for 4pm.

The first round in the EFL Cup has been drawn on a North/South divide and commenced on Tuesday evening. The early rounds are frequently used to provide game time for fringe players and we will keep a keen eye on Irish players who fall into that category. In the Northern Section the Preston North End v Morecambe contest saw Graham Burke start and score for the hosts in their three one victory while veteran goalkeeper Barry Roche started for the opposition. Callum Robinson was unused on the bench for the ‘Lilywhites’ alongside teenage midfielder Adam O’Reilly. Rumoured Ireland target Patrick Bamford scored for Leeds United in their two one victory over Bolton Wanderers who had Marc Wilson in midfield. The televised meeting of Yeovil Town and Aston Villa in the Southern Section saw the midfield trio of Conor Hourihane, Glenn Whelan and Jake Doyle-Hayes all start for the Championship visitors with Hourihane scoring the only goal on seventy seven minutes. Callum O’Dowda started for Bristol City who lost to the only goal from visitors Plymouth Argyle who included former U21 internationals Graham Carey and Niall Canavan in their starting eleven. 

 

The draw for the second round of the 2018 Irish Daily Mail FAI Cup was made this evening and produced just one all Premier Division clash with Derry City set to host St Patrick’s Athletic in the Brandywell on Friday the 24th August. Non-league side CIE Ranch were first out of the drum and play host to current First Division leaders UCD while the other surviving non-league side Maynooth University Town will travel to face the cup holders and current Premier Division leaders Cork City. The remaining five fixtures are:- Drogheda United v Waterford, Dundalk v Finn Harps, Galway United v Bohemian, Limerick v Cabinteely, Longford Town v Shelbourne

Packie Bonner and Tony Galvin are set to join the RISSC LONDON SPECIAL CELEBRATORY EVENING together with Thomas Morgan, captain of our 1997 FIFA U20 World Cup Bronze Medal winners in Malaysia and Goalkeeper Alex O’Reilly from our European U18 Championship winning side in Cyprus

Two stars from our maiden voyage to the 1988 European Championship Finals, Packie Bonner and Tony Galvin, are set to join us at our special Celebratory Dinner event on the evening of Saturday the 6th October 2018. We are also delighted to confirm that Thomas Morgan, who captained our U20 side which finished third at the 1997 FIFA World Championship Finals in Malaysia, together with our U18 goalkeeper from the 1998 European Championship winning side in Cyprus, Alex O’Reilly, will join us on the evening.

We are still in communication with another member of that senior team and also certain members of the double European Championship success of our U16 and U18 sides in the summer of 1998 and hope to make some further announcements shortly.

The event will take place in the upstairs function room at the Claddagh Ring in Hendon on Saturday the 6th October 2018 with arrival time targeted for 7pm and our three course dinner, followed by coffee/tea and mints, scheduled to commence at 8pm. We aim to introduce our first guest(s) at c7.30pm and would encourage your early arrival. Music will be provided by DJ Shox and we have a late extension.

The concluding contests in Group One of the Women’s Champions League took place on Monday afternoon with the scoreless draw between Thor/KA (Iceland) and AFC Ajax (Holland) in Solitude, the home of Cliftonville FC, sending the Dutch side through to the next stage by virtue of having scored one goal more than their opponents in their respective opening fixtures despite their goal difference being identical. There was a quite dramatic finale between Linfield Ladies and Wexford WFC at Seaview to determine the bottom two positions with Wexford taking an early two goal lead only for the hosts to pull one back just before the break and draw level in the third minute of added time which would have given them third place but in the fifth minute of added time Kylie Murphy scored the winner for Wexford.