Longford Town 1-3 Cork City July 23rd 2011

 My first game back home with my beloved Cork City was an away trip up to the midlands to face Longford Town. Longford had a good squad that featured former Sheffield United winger Keith Gillespie and former "Football's Next star" contestant Craig Walsh but our side also featured some stars with Graham Cummins being top scorer once again, Derek O'Brien out on the wing with Daryl Horgan, on loan from Sligo Rovers parading the opposite flank.

A long trip in time for the 19:00 kick-off in Flancare Park. A good number of Cork fans made the journey with around 50 in total. The home side started well enough forcing a few shot but Cork settled into their rythm and were first to score on sixteen minutes with Daryl Horgan heading in from a Gearoid Morrisey corner. Things were playing out nicely until Cork gave away a penalty when Don Cowan was bought down in the penalty area by Greg O'Halloran. The resulting spot-kick was scored, just about by Mark Salmon.

In the second half both sides chased the game with the home side looking to push on from that penalty. It was Cork though who scored next when Daryl Horgan, who appeared off-side slotted past the keeper for 2-1 to the delight of us travelling fans.

Gearoid Morrisey wrapped up a good nights' work with a third goal on 72 minutes that killed off the Longford tempo of getting an equiliser. Three points in the race for promotion and Shelbourne at home were next up.