‘Twas amidst a fairly surreal scene at Belfast’s Windsor Park stadium that Joey O’Brien’s Shelbourne side emerged victorious over David Healy’s Linfield outfit.  Compliance with UEFA rules around ticket allocations and health and safety meant that Windsor, despite its capacity to hold 18,500, only ended up housing 7,137 spectators. It created a scene in which…

This time last year, Stephen Kenny’s men were about to embark on a European adventure that would not only see them going a tie away from securing league phase football but also put them on a crazy unbeaten run to propel them from midtable mediocrity to title dreamers come the end of the season. Something…

Just 24 days ago, Shelbourne had seemingly had the cog of their machine taken away from them in Damien Duff. Since then, Joey O’Brien has taken over, brought them on a 3 game unbeaten run in the league and most importantly guided them past Linfield and give them a 3 game shootout of achieving the…

Joey O’Brien takes his rejuvenated Shelbourne troops up north to Windsor Park with a slender one goal lead as they look to finish the job on a night that could mean so much more than the obvious North vs South rivalry. A full week’s worth of training has been something of a rarity for Shels…

Credit: Eoghan Connolly The Saints were in action last night in the first round of the UECL qualifiers against FC Hegelmann of Lithuania. Stephen Kenny’s saints could have came away with more but thanks to an Aiden Kenna 2nd half penalty the saints have a 1-0 lead heading to the second leg. The Build Up…

Mipo Odubeko scored the only goal in an all-Irish Champions League qualifier, giving Shelbourne a narrow advantage over Linfield heading into next week’s second leg in Belfast. Joey O’Brien’s side were those who set the tempo early on, they were awarded the games opening two corners and the second resulted in a near post header…