DROGHEDA BEAT CABINTEELY 2-0 to secure top spot and promotion to the Premier Division tonight.
Tim Clancy’s side began the day a point ahead of second-place Bray Wanderers.
The Seagulls beat Athlone 1-0, but had to settle for the runners-up spot owing to the Drogs’ win.
Joining Bray in the play-offs will be UCD, Longford and Cabinteely.
Galway just missed out, as a 2-2 draw with the Students left them a point adrift of the Stradbrook outfit.
Similarly, Cobh Ramblers fell just short, as a 0-0 draw with Shamrock Rovers II saw them finish a point off the play-off spots in seventh.
James Brown and Luke Heeney’s second-half goals secured the Drogs’ title triumph against the hosts, who played the majority of the game with 10 men, as Jonathan Carlin was sent off in the first half having picked up two bookings.
Kevin Knight saw his penalty saved by David Odumosu late on to add to Cabinteely’s woes.
Meanwhile, Ryan Graydon’s free kick proved the matchwinner for Bray just before half-time, but it ultimately turned out to be a disappointing night for his side.
Longford were able to breathe a sigh of relief, despite a surprise 2-1 loss against bottom-of-the-table Wexford.
An early Dylan Grimes free kick gave the visitors the lead, before a second-half fightback enabled Wexford to turn the game around, as goals from Karl Fitzsimons and Jack Doherty enabled the hosts to end their season on a high.
Finally, UCD’s play-off spot was confirmed after their 2-2 draw with Galway.
John Caulfield’s men looked like sealing a play-off spot at one point, as Stephen Christopher gave them the lead just before half-time.
A brace in the final 10 minutes from Evan Weir put UCD in front, before a last-gasp Shane Duggan goal meant the game finished all square.
Mayweather is a coward
Any man who hits a woman like he did is..
While they will both go down as 2 of the best pound for pounders, I think they’ll both also go down as the top two guys who devalued the sport of boxing as much as anybody else. I love boxing but if you look at the politics and corruption without boxing, it’s such an ugly sport.
If both men really wanted to prove their the best then they would have made this fight happen… Mayweather is the best of all time but not fighting Pac shows he wasn’t the bravest or most courageous fighter of all time and has selected a hard, talented but ultimately lower class fighter such as Maidana for his next fight… that’s where the true art of boxing has been lost over the last decade.
Once upon a time Pacquaio might have beaten Mayweather but that time had passed in afraid. Love him or hate him Mayweather is one of the best we’ve ever seen.
He continues to damage his credibility as a boxer and his fighting legacy with stupid throwaway comments like this.
If the challenging fighter isn’t a come forward brawler who walks into punches every round Mayweather has no interest in fighting them.
He will eventually give Pacquiao a shot so he can collect a massive payday, but only when Pacmans legs are completely gone, the same way he made Shane Moseley wait the best part of a decade until he was way, way past his prime and had the cheek to promote the farce as a “superfight”….
I’d love to see someone beat the shite out of Mayweather! …. Don’t think Pacquaio would be able too though..
Mayweather will never be beating. The greatest boxer of all time
Statistically
*beaten
I think what he is saying is pacman was using drugs when he had all the power. A little dig there
Good read, show the level of Mayweathers opponents to date:
http://www.badlefthook.com/2013/9/19/4747960/floyd-mayweather-and-the-10-greatest-unbeaten-fighters-of-all-time