Galway United and Dundalk played out a 2-2 draw at Eamonn Deacy Park as Bobby Burns scored against his former club to earn the Lilywhites a point on the road.<\/p>\n
Both teams entered the encounter on the back of defeats to Stephen Kenny’s St Patrick’s Athletic side. The man who replaced Kenny as Republic of Ireland boss – Heimir Hallgrimsson – was in attendance on Corribside as he watched on as both teams battled until the very end.<\/p>\n
The first half saw Dundalk find gaps in a United side that struggled to gain a foothold on proceedings, and the first real opportunity of the game translated into the opening goal.<\/p>\n
Galway native Daryl Horgan was the provider as his left-footed delivery was headed home by an unmarked Gbemi Arubi at the near post to give the Lilywhites the lead in the 12th minute.<\/p>\n
A few minutes later, the one-goal advantage could have become two when former Tribesman Bobby Burns almost doubled Dundalk’s advantage, but Evan Watts\u2019 foot came to the rescue to stop the low strike.<\/p>\n
At the other end of the pitch, the United faithful called for a hopeful penalty on Stephen Walsh, while an Aaron Bolger effort at the edge of the box was blocked down.<\/p>\n
The second half began brighter for John Caulfield\u2019s outfit, as a clever pass from David Hurley resulted in their first clear-cut chance and also an equalising goal in the 51st minute.<\/p>\n
Substitute Kris Twardek latched onto Hurley\u2019s pass behind the Dundalk backline, before the ball landed at Walsh\u2019s feet, and the veteran striker struck a low effort to bag his first goal of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
Momentum was building, and Twardek, who once again impressed off the bench, turned assister into scorer to put United in front in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n
The one-time capped Canadian international got on the end of a Jimmy Keohane free kick, and his headed effort hit the net to the delight of the home faithful.<\/p>\n
The Lilywhites struggled to cope with the Tribesmen\u2019s early second-half onslaught, as further opportunities fell to Ed McCarthy and Hurley, but the Tribesmen were unable to increase their advantage.<\/p>\n
United would end up rueing those missed chances as Burns, who performed well on the night, brought Dundalk level with a low right-footed strike in the 81st minute after latching onto a loose ball in the box.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, the game turned on its head, as Ciaran Kilduff\u2019s side searched for a winner.<\/p>\n
Substitute Declan McDaid struck the post, while Horgan and Harry Groome manufactured openings, but both were unable to find a way past Watts.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the Tribesmen were able to hold out and would have been content to come away with a point in a topsy-turvy contest.<\/p>\n
Galway United: Watts; Devitt, Parker, Brouder, Facchineri; Bolger, Barratt (Twardek 41), McCarthy (McCormack 82), Keohane (Piesold 90); Hurley (Wolfe 82), Walsh (Pierrot 90).<\/p>\n
Dundalk: Kearns; Burns, J.R. Wilson, Cornwall, O\u2019Keeffe; Buckley (T. Wilson 69), Dervin (McDaid 69), Horgan, Kenny (Mullen 69); Teahan, Arubi (Groome 69)<\/p>\n
Referee: Alan Patchell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway United and Dundalk played out a 2-2 draw at Eamonn Deacy Park as Bobby Burns scored against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-333591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333591","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=333591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}