It’s the last week of the League of Ireland Premier Division tonight but more importantly, it’s the last week of our League of Ireland Writer’s Prediction League.
The league itself brings little in the way of last day drama, Dundalk have already comfortably wrapped up the league, U.C.D. are relegated with Finn Harps waiting to find out their opponents in the play-off and last week Bohemians secured European qualification. The only thing that is to be decided is the final European spot, currently, Declan Devine’s Derry City side are in the driving seat and anything but defeat well see them finish 4th but a loss would open the door to St. Pat’s if they can beat Dundalk.
All the fixtures for tonight are as follows with all games at 19:45
Bohemians v Sligo Rovers
Derry City v Finn Harps
Dundalk v St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers v Cork City
Waterford v U.C.D.
Here is the full Premier Division table:-
| 1 | Dundalk | 35 | 26 | 5 | 4 | 69 | 18 | 51 | 83 |
| 2 | Shamrock Rovers | 35 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 59 | 21 | 38 | 72 |
| 3 | Bohemians | 35 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 45 | 27 | 18 | 57 |
| 4 | Derry City | 35 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 52 | 34 | 18 | 54 |
| 5 | St. Patrick’s Athletic | 35 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 29 | 31 | -2 | 52 |
| 6 | Sligo Rovers | 35 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 37 | 45 | -8 | 42 |
| 7 | Waterford | 35 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 42 | 51 | -9 | 40 |
| 8 | Cork City | 35 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 29 | 46 | -17 | 37 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 35 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 60 | -34 | 28 |
| 10 | U.C.D. | 35 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 23 | 78 | -55 | 19 |
In our prediction league, Darren currently holds the upper hand and to be honest it would take a poor week from him to lose that lead but with teams potentially not necessarily playing full strength sides who knows what could happen.
The prediction league could potentially be won by anyone in the top four, here is the full leaderboard:-
| 1: Darren | 98 |
| 2: Bryan | 90 |
| 3: Cameron | 89 |
| 4: Rodney | 83 |
| 5: Liam | 81 |
| 6: Adrian | 79 |
| Keith | 75 |
This week Liam is frist up and as usual it’s three points for getting a correct result and a point for a correct outcome.
Liam
Bohemians 2-0 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 1-0 Finn Harps
Dundalk 3-0 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 4-1 Cork City
Waterford 1-1 U.C.D.
Darren
Bohemians 2-1 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 2-0 Finn Harps
Dundalk 3-0 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 3-1 Cork City
Waterford 1-0 U.C.D.
Rodney
Bohemians 2-0 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 3-0 Finn Harps
Dundalk 3-0 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 3-1 Cork City
Waterford 2-0 U.C.D.
Cameron
Bohemians 2-1 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 3-0 Finn Harps
Dundalk 1-1 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 2-0 Cork City
Waterford 0-1 U.C.D.
Adrian
Bohemians 3-0 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 3-1 Finn Harps
Dundalk 4-1 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 3-0 Cork City
Waterford 2-0 U.C.D.
Bryan
Bohemians 2-0 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 3-1 Finn Harps
Dundalk 2-1 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 2-0 Cork City
Waterford 1-0 U.C.D.
Keith
Bohemians 1-2 Sligo Rovers
Derry City 1-0 Finn Harps
Dundalk 2-0 St. Patrick’s Athletic
Shamrock Rovers 3-1 Cork City
Waterford 0-0 U.C.D.
Tonight also sees Drogheda United host Cabinteely in the second leg of their play-off for the right to play Finn Harps and compete for a Premier Division spot next season, the tie is finely poised at 1-1.
Join us again next week as we announce the winner of our prediction league.
