Finn Harps were held to a scoreless draw by bottom club Cobh Ramblers in their Airtricity First Division clash at Finn Park tonight.
The game was marred by a serious leg injury to Ramblers keeper Shane Hallahan who was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital following a collision with Caoimhin Bonner in the eighth minute.
In a first half of few chances, Harps felt hard done by when Cobh’s Brendan Frahill was only shown a yellow card for bringing down Paul McVeigh on the edge of the Ramblers box as he bore down on goal.
The home side felt aggrieved again five minutes into the second half when they were denied a penalty after Gareth Harkin went down under a challenge from Anthony O’Donnell, referee Matthews opting to book the Harps midfielder for diving.
Birdsall pulled of a good save from Ciaran Coll midway through the second period.
McHugh went close to grabbing all three points for the home side two minutes into the four minutes of stoppage time but he put his header narrowly over the crossbar
Eight players were booked in the game – McVeigh, Bonner, Harkin, Mailey and Cowan for Harps – Frahill, Deady and O’Donnell for Ramblers.
Finn Harps: Conor Winn, Caoimhin Bonner (Thomas McMonagle 50), Ciaran Coll, Keith Cowan, Packie Mailey, Gareth Harkin, Josh Mailey( Carel Tiofack 81), Pat McCann, Damien McNulty, Paul McVeigh (Darragh Black 65), Kevin McHugh.
Unused substitutes: Thomas Bonner, Graham Fisher, Shaun Patton.
Cobh Ramblers: Shane Hallahan (Robert Birdsall 9), Roy Kenny, Brendan Frahill, Craig Burns, Anthony O’Donnell, Brendan Kenny (Kynan Rocks 56), Ryan Goldsmith, Martin Deady, Garry Comerford, Chris McCarthy, Stephen Kenny (George Gill 83).
Unused substitutes: Nathaniel Gumbo, Cian Murphy.
Referee: Ray Matthews.
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Airtricity Premier Division
Athlone Town (Gorman 4, 43, Dillon 19) 3 Limerick FC 0
Drogheda United 0 Cork City (Buckley 81) 1
Bohemians (Wearen 31) 1 St Patrick’s Athletic (Quigley 10) 1
Airtricity Division One
Galway FC (Faherty 4, 16, Keegan 54, Curran 85, Keegan 86) 5 Shamrock Rovers B 0
Shelbourne (Keegan 14, McDonnell 63, Coughlan 78) 3 Waterford United (Whittle 75) 1
Wexford Youths 0 Longford Town (Delaney og 24, Shaw 42) 2
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