LIMERICK FC 2(Duggan 42′, Mulhall 48′)

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Limerick FC claimed another vital three points as they close in on the SSE Airtricity League First Division title thanks to a superb goal by captain Shane Duggan and another from Chris Mulhall at the Market’s Field on Friday evening.

Read the full reportHERE, with thanks to Adrian Finnan and extratime.ie

Limerick: Freddy Hall, Robbie Williams, Paul O’Conor, Lee-J Lynch, Shane Duggan, Aaron Greene, Shane Tracy, Sean Russell (Garbhan Coughlan 68′), Stephen Kenny, Chris Mulhall (John O’Flynn 68′), Paudie O’Connor.

Subs not used: Tommy Holland, Shaun Kelly, Tony Whitehead, Ross Mann, Sean McSweeney.

Shelbourne: Greg Murray, Adam O’Connor, Reece McEnteer, Aidan Collins (Mikey Murphy 81′), Daire Doyle, Gavin Boyne,Cian Kavanagh (Michael Kelly 45′), Adam Evans, Jamie Doyle (Dylan Kavanagh 60′), James English.

Subs not used: Dylan Grimes, Jack Tuite, Conor Keeley.

Finbarr Flood : An Appreciation – by Martin Fitzpatrick

Finbarr Flood has to have been one of the very few people I ever met who hit all the life targets that were set for him. That he did so spectacularly and with such grace and good humour made him that bit special.

He rose from the bottom to the top in business. He joined the Guinness Brewery as a 14 year-old ‘boy messenger’ and eventually became managing director of the world famous brewery and the architect of revolutionary change that may well have saved the Brewery from a catastrophic collapse.

He had a special talent for football and was the Shelbourne goalkeeper when the club won only its second FAI Cup in 1960. He played professional football in Scotland (while he remained on the Guinness staff in Dublin) but perhaps his proudest achievement in sport was as chairman of Shelbourne when he helped spearhead the ‘Reds’ establishment as Dublin’s leading club during the 1990s. He was chairman when, in 2004, Shels were forty minutes away from immortality against the Spanish champions, Deportivo la Corona. A win that night might well have changed the face of Irish soccer forever. Alas it wasn’t to be.

Finbarr’s achievements weren’t just confined to business and sport. After leaving Guinness he became the chairman of the Labour Court and when he was finished that (and despite declining health) took on some of the most arduous city regeneration projects, including the brilliantly successful renewal of the Fatima Mansion complex in Rialto.

Born in 1939, he grew up on Oxmantown Road on the north side of the Liffey. His first football team was a local side Kirwan Rovers. He then joined Shamrock Rovers minors, but forgiveness came when he became part of the Gerry Doyle’s Babes, the Shels team that included such legendary names as Theo Dunne, Freddie Strahan, Joey Wilson, Jackie Hennessy and Eric Barber. The brilliant Manchester United star Tony Dunne was also part of this team.

Shortly after Shels’ Cup success tht year, Finbarr and Shamrock Rovers player Paddy Turner went to play for Greenock Morton in Scotland and Finbarr managed for several years to combine his Guinness shifts with net-keeping for the famous Scottish outfit. Turner ended up playing for Celtic but Finbarr returned home to hold down his decent pensionable job and play part-time in the League of Ireland (which he continued to cherish despite his repeated acknowledgment of its faults).

In the brewery he was breaking totally new ground. Having become managing director of Guinness Dublin he had succeeded in breaking barriers of class and religious prejudice that had been in place for centuries. Moreover he went on to leave the fusty 200 year-old Dublin institution with a sense of purpose facing a new Millennium. Alas the same sort of miracle cure was not available for the League of Ireland or indeed for Shels. But he was chairman when Shels and Ollie Byrne were giving it their best shot.

As fans we never forget Shels moment in the Big Time and he won’t forget Finbarr’s part in that either.

We offer our deep condolences to his wife Anne.

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DROGHEDA UTD (Thornton [pen] 28′, Ashe 87′)

Drogheda United put an end to Shelbourne’s faltering play-off hopes in the SSE Airtricity League First Division with a

2-0 win in Tolka Park on Friday night.

Read the full reportHERE, with thanks to Gavin White and extratime.ie

Shelbourne: Jack Brady, Adam O’Connor, Ryan Robinson (Adam Evans 45), Jack Tuite, Reece McEnteer, Daire Doyle, Gavin Boyne, Lorcan Shannon(Dylan Grimes 77), Stephen Elliot(Greg Murray 28), James English, Jamie Doyle.

Subs not Used: Cian Kavanagh, Dylan Kavangh, Michael Kelly, Conor Keeley.

Drogheda United: Stephen McGuinness, Colm Deasy, Stephen Dunne, Kevin Farragher, Jake Hyland, Marc Griffin (Liam Donnelly 85), Sean Brennan (John McKeown 81), Sean Thornton, Luke Gallagher, Gareth McCaffrey (Derek Doyle 77), Aaron Ashe.

Subs not Used: Patrick Duncan, Llyod Buckley, Sam O’Connor, Ken Costello.

The Shelbourne Ladies are back in league action from August 7th, when they’re away to Cork City, and they will hoping to go one better than last season when they edged out in a league play-off with Wexford Youths WFC.

The fixtures for the comingseason will kick off onSaturday, August 6in a one-off format to prepare for the move to a structure in 2017.

The full list of fixtures can be had by clicking2016 Continental Tyres Women’s National League

The signing of Michael Kelly from Killester United and Mikey Murphy from Shelbourne U19s, brings Owen Hearys new signings to five.

Michael Kelly played his schoolboy football with St. Kevins, joining UCD on a football scholarship in 2007. He was part of the UCD Team that won the Fiest Division title in 2009.

In 2011 he went to Australia where he played withHeidelberg United, in the VPL, and the following season crossed Melbourne to sign forSunshine George Cross FC. He returned to UCD at the start of 2013 but injury ruled him out for much of that season, his first game being against Bohemians August. He played in six league games by the end of the season.

Michael joined the new Shamrock Rovers B team in February 2014, and left them to sign for Killester United for the 2014/15 season and was part of their 2015 FAI Cup team.

Seventeen year old Mikey Murphy was signed for the club in 2014 from our friends at Raheny Utd. He represented the NDSL in the Kennedy Cup, while with United.

Mikey played for the Shelbourne Youth Academy for over three years, including under manager Bob Doheny in the Under 16s Premier. From there he progressed to the U17s Elite in the League of Ireland last season and progressed to the Under 19s Elite at the sdtart of this season., managed by Derek Farrell and lamanager and Martin Murray, where he played up to that and represented the NDSL in the Kennedy Cup.

He played with the U17s last season and was promoted to 19s from beginning of this season.

Played in Tom Mohan’s U17 International team in the Elite Qualifiers earlier this season.

Defender Jack Tuite has today signed for Shelbourne

Jack Tuite joined Derby County from his schoolboy club, Cherry Orchard in October 2012. After two and a half years at the club, he signed his first professional contract in May 2015, but parted with the ‘Rams’ the following November.

He returned to Ireland and trained with the PFAI. Early in the new year he went on trial with UCD before joining Athlone Town in February. He made twelve appearances for Athlone before parting company with the Lissywollen club in June 2016.

After performing well in the friendly games against Ipswich Town and Swindon Town, manager Owen Heary invited Tuite to join the club.

Former Bohemians striker Adam Evans has signed for Shelbourne, just a month after leaving the Dalymount club and having impressed in the recent game against Leeds United.

Adam played his schoolboy football with Belvedere FC before going on a two-year scholarship to Burnley in 2010. While with the Clarets, he was part of the team that reached the semi-final of the FA Youths Cup in 2012, before going out over the two legs to Blackburn Rovers.

In May of that year he signed a 12 month Professional Contract and went out on loan immediately to Droylsden FC in the Northern Premier League where he made six appearances. He was released by Burnley at the end of his contract in June 2013.

Inverness Caladonian Thistle came calling and Evans joined them on a 12 month contract. He made just two first team appearances for them – his debut being away to Aberdeen in January 2013 and was once again released at the end of his contract period.

Returning to Ireland, Adam signed for Bohemians in July (2014) and played seven games for the club that season. Re-signing for the Gypsies for 2015, Evans made 26 appearances scoring five times.

The start of the 2016 season saw Adam again with Bohs and he made two Premier Division appearances with them before leaving the club.

He did however, play against Shelbourne twice this year, once in the pre-season friendly in January as a 69′ substitute for Keith Buckley and in the EA Cup game in Tolka Park coming on for Jake Kelly after 58 minutes.

Adam is the holder of 15 caps, having played at U15, U16, U17 and U19 for his country.

Shelbourne completed the signing of defender Reece McEnteer.

The former Amateur International, who has also represented his country at the World University Games and on the Colleges FAI International, has put pen to paper following excellent displays in the recent series of friendly games in the ” Summer Festival of Football’ at Tolka Park.

He was already well known to the Shelbourne Management Team, having played under Assistant Manager Liam Kelly at Glebe North

The Club will announce a number of further signings over the next few days, once they have been completed

SHELBOURNE 2(Oscar Brennan og 15′, James English 37′)

CABINTEELY 1(Mark Slater 59′)

Read the full report on the game, courtesy of Aaron Gallagher and extratime.ieHERE.

Shelbourne:Jack Brady; Adam O’Connor, Reece McEnteer, Aidan Collins (Robert O’Reilly 76), Ryan Robinson, Adam O’Connor; Gavin Boyne, Daire Doyle, Jamie Doyle, Lorcan Shannon; Stephen Elliott (Cian Kavanagh 70), James English.

Subs not used:Greg Murray (gk), Dylan Grimes, Dylan Kavanagh, Carl Walshe, James Brown.

Cabinteely:Michael Kelly; Karl Byrne (Paul Fox 92), Andrew McGovern, Christian Lotefa (Lee Mitchell 87), Oscar Brennan; Shane Boyle, Evan Galvin (Mark Slater 61), Aaron Brilly, Ben Hanrahan; Joe Doyle, Kevin Knight

Subs not used:Gavin Howard, Adam Maher, Ryan Byrne.

ATHLONE TOWN 1(Conor Barry 27′ )

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Full report later

Athlone Town:Jamie Quinn, Daniel Molloy, David Brookes, Jack Quinn, Joe Moloney, Daragh Concannonn Conor Barry, Colm Coss, Ronan Hanaphy (Chris Reid 90+1′), Claudio Silva, Ryan Gaffey (aidan Byrne 72′).

Subs: Ciaran O’Connell, Aaron O’Neill, Roy King, Sean Nolan.

Shelbourne: Jack Brady, Adam O’Connor, Ryan Robinson, Aidan Collins, Alan Kehoe (Dylan Kavanagh), Daire Doyle, Gavin Boyne, Lorcan Shannon (Cian Kavanagh), Stephen Elliott (Carl Walshe 79′), James English, Jamie Doyle.

Subs: Conor Keeley, Avibola Sule, Robert O’Reilly, Greg Murray.