Good evening. It may be a Friday night in which the Six Nations clash between Ireland and Wales hogs much of the national spotlight but for League of Ireland fans the only show in town is the one involving their club.<\/p>\n
There are four Premier Division matches up for consideration with reigning champions Shamrock Rovers hosting last season\u2019s runners-up Derry City at Tallaght Stadium.<\/p>\n
The sides have already met at the Hoops\u2019 home ground this season, with the Candystripes winning 1-0 in the President\u2019s Cup \u2013 thanks to Daragh Markey\u2019s first-half goal \u2013 at the end of January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following the derby triumph over their major rivals seven days ago, Bohemians are sitting pretty on top of the league with 10 points from four outings. Alan Reynolds\u2019 men are away to his former club Waterford, who have yet to register a league win under John Daly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The televised game (Virgin Media Two, 8.0) is the all-Dublin affair between Shelbourne and St Patrick\u2019s Athletic, with Saints fans feeling considerably more positive thanks to back-to-back wins over Dundalk and Galway United.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And those two clubs make up the final fixture, which takes place at Eamonn Deacy Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cork City are already looking like the team to beat in the First Division, and \u2013 in one of four second-tier games \u2013 the Leesiders are getting ready for a derby with Cobh Ramblers at St Colman\u2019s Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening. It may be a Friday night in which the Six Nations clash between Ireland and Wales…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14645,14646,14640,2538,16488,61,60,16490,43,11113,25201,14644,16489,6513],"class_list":{"0":"post-332555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bohemian-fc","9":"tag-derry-city","10":"tag-drogheda-united-fc","11":"tag-dundalk-fc","12":"tag-galway-united-fc","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-live-blogs","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-shamrock-rovers","18":"tag-shelbourne","19":"tag-sligo-rovers","20":"tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","21":"tag-waterford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}