Aidan Fitzmaurice

For Celtic supporters of a certain age, the act of throwing their club name into the same sentence as a team from Austria brings out the vitriol and the bile.

Hull City have assured Irish defender Cathal McCarthy that he has a future at the club, despite a loan move which ends his hopes of playing Premier League football this season, by giving him a long-term deal.

When a club like Real Betis go for a player, they go big. This is the club that broke the world transfer record to sign a future World Cup winner back in the 1990s.

Seeing as no club from outside of Dublin has had any sort of presence in the top three in the Premier Division table all season, it’s a given that the league title will be staying in the capital for the seventh year in a row.

BOHEMIANS v DERRY CITY (Dalymount Park, 7.45)

St Patrick’s Athletic say they will offer their full support to former Ireland U-21 cap Simon Power after his injury curse struck again to rule him out for the rest of the season.

For a while it was shaping up as a tug of war in international football terms over a young Manchester United player, with England and the Republic of Ireland naming him in their squads at the same time.

In our latest LOI Legends feature, Tony O’Connor recalls 19 years of LOI football, European nights, dressing-room fights, his Gaelic football career filling Barney Rock’s boots and why he was glad to walk away

Anthony Olusanya strikes early in Drogheda but Saints forced to work hard to close gap on leaders

In our latest LOI Legends feature, Tony O’Connor recalls 19 years of LOI football, European nights, dressing-room fights, his Gaelic football career filling Barney Rock’s boots and why he was glad to walk away