Good evening. Following Friday night\u2019s matches, it\u2019s a quick turnaround for the Premier Division clubs to get themselves ready for Round 7 of the 2026 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The table is looking notably lob-sided at the moment with the Dublin sides occupying the top four positions and two of those \u2013 leaders Bohemians and Shelbourne \u2013 face off in a derby at Tolka Park. Bohs remain unbeaten and take on a Shels squad stripped of several first-team regulars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the eve of St Patrick\u2019s Day, the Saints will look to extend their four-game winning run when Derry City arrive in Inchicore. Tiernan Lynch\u2019s men are under increasing pressure due to a less-than-convincing start to the season, with boos audible at the Brandywell after the 2-1 loss to Shels made it back-to-back defeats. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Drogheda United will want to improve their recent form with no points to show from the last three outings but champions Shamrock Rovers, fresh from a 2-0 win away to Sligo Rovers, surely have other ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ciar\u00e1n Kilduff\u2019s Dundalk had to be patient for their first victory but it came in emphatic fashion with a 5-0 drubbing of Waterford at Oriel Park three nights ago. They\u2019re at home again with Sligo Rovers the latest visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And in Virgin Media\u2019s televised fixture, bottom-placed Waterford travel to Galway United in a clash that could arguably be billed as an early relegation six-pointer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Join us on The Irish Independent for the next few hours as we\u2019ll have updates on the action as it happens followed by reports and reaction from our team of writers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening. Following Friday night\u2019s matches, it\u2019s a quick turnaround for the Premier Division clubs to get themselves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349511,"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":["post-349510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bohemian-fc","tag-derry-city","tag-drogheda-united-fc","tag-dundalk-fc","tag-galway-united-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-live-blogs","tag-news","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-shelbourne","tag-sligo-rovers","tag-st-patricks-athletic-fc","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349510","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=349510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}