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Match Preview: Galway United vs St Patrick’s Athletic
Galway United’s first home game of the 2025 Premier Division season sees them face off against Stephen Kenny’s St Patrick’s Athletic. Both sides had to settle for just a point in the opening match week of the season, Galway came from behind against newly promoted Cork City, that game finished 2-2, whilst St Pats faced…
MATCHDAY 2 PREVIEW: UCD VS BRAY
Paul Heffernan and his men will make the short journey up to Belfield for the 145, or now E1 derby this Friday 21st February. The Seagulls go into this game on the back of a tight and hard fought 0-1 win over Longford Town to start the season strongly. UCD suffered a heavy 3-0 battering…
Limerick FC to APPLY for FAI National League
With the FAI today making a final reminder regarding the expression of interest for clubs wishing to participate in the brand new FAI National League, LOITalk can exclusively reveal that 1 club looking to return to League Of Ireland football via the National League is Limerick FC. LOITalk understands Limerick FC have made an expression…
Premier Division TOTW GW 1
The League Of Ireland is finally back and gameweek 1 certainly didn’t disappoint. 14 goals across the 5 games, A power outage that nearly had the game abandoned and a record crowd at an LOI game at the Aviva stadium. In total across the Premier and First Divisions there was over 57 thousand in attendance…
James Norris joins Shelbourne
The 21 year old English left back joins Shelbourne on loan from Liverpool. This is an exciting signing from Damien Duff! He comes from Anfield as the final deal from what has been a very enticing transfer window for the Auld Reds. A brief bit of history. Norris made his debut for Liverpool on the…
Match Review: Longford Town vs Bray Wanderers
AND BREATHE, was the reaction for most Bray supporters when the final whistle was blown. It was a decent and very mature performance from a very young squad. Just 3 minutes in, Dean O’Shea delivered the ball into the box and Norris smashed it against the post for Longford, if that goes in its a…
Dearg agus Dubh – Bohemians 1-0 Shamrock Rovers
Dublin is red and black, as Bohemians claimed a 1-0 win in a record-breaking Dublin Derby. The opening fixture for both teams saw a record 32,000 people show up at Lansdowne Road, as the Gypsies beat their traditional rivals Shamrock Rovers. Right from the get-go, Bohs were in control. Aside from a couple of opportunities…
WE ARE SO BACK, CORK CITY
It’s not just that City is back in the top league. It’s that I was back in Cork for a couple of days. It’s that I was finally out and about after a minor surgery—still, surgery is surgery. Since the end of January, I had been mostly confined to home, if not to bed. It’s…
Blue Review 1 – Sligo Rovers 2 – 3 Waterford FC
What a way to start the year! A 3-2 victory away from home secured our first three points of the year with goals coming in from Rowan McDonald, Tommy Lonergan and Conan Noonan. Block E were in full voice from start to finish playing a key part in the end. FIRST HALF HEROICS The game…
Treaty United 2-3 Cobh Ramblers
2-0 up and looking set to claim an unlikely win with 7 minutes to go, The crowd in the main stand in the Markets Field were starting to have abit of hope that this Treaty United side could be competitive for the playoffs places this season. The Blue Army in the top right corner singing…