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vs GALWAY UNITED
League
Friday, July 3rd
7:45pm
Richmond Park

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Regaining their goal touch, St Patrick's Athletic blew Galway United away at Richmond Park to re-ignite their title challenge.

Dominant from the start, Stephen Kenny's Saints raced into their match winning 3-0 lead inside 24 minutes with goals from Ryan Edmondson, Kian Leavy and Aidan Keena - a stunned Galway manager John Caulfield making a triple substitution minutes later.

The result saw St Pat's bounce back emphatically from last week's 2-0 defeat at Bohemians, though wins for the latter and Shamrock Rovers coming from behind in Sligo means it's as you where at the top.

It proved a night to forget for seventh-placed Galway, compounded by Waterford's win at Derry City meaning they are now four points off the bottom.

As expected, Hugo Da Cunha made his league debut in goal for Galway with county GAA netminder Connor Gleeson on the bench.

And the Portuguese keeper was in action inside two minutes, getting down well to smother at the feet of Keena after a mistake by Wasiri Williams had gifted possession to Jay McClelland.

But it was Galway who should have taken the lead just a minute later in a lively start to the game, Aaron Bolger blazing over after Stephen Walsh nodded down Lee Devitt's cross.

Sloppy defending back at the other end would lead to Saints' going ahead on eight minutes.

The tenacity of Luke Turner was key as he initially won the ball off a sluggish David Hurley to then set up Edmondson to rifle low to the net for his ninth goal of the season.

Da Cunha then stood strong to parry a stinging drive from Edmondson but could do nothing to prevent St Pat's ripping the visitors to shreds in doubling their lead on 17 minutes.

Hurley failed to clear resulting in Turner's cross being knocked down by Edmondson for James Brown. The wingback dinked the ball into the path of Leavy who swept home off his left-foot.

Further poor defending saw Galway concede again seven minutes later as St Pat's recycled McClelland's corner.

Da Cunha initially made a fine parry save from Brown's drive. Keena pounced on the rebound to volley past the the stranded keeper.

His utterly disjointed side 3-0 down, Caulfield brought on Matt Wolfe, Frantz Pierrot and new signing Leigh Kavanagh for Jimmy Keohane, Conor McCormack and Killian Brouder.

But Da Cunha had to make further saves from Leavy and Edmondson before Jamie Lennon rattled the crossbar with a header from a corner as Galway survived conceding further before half-time.

The impressive Turner saw a shot tipped round a post by Da Cunha while Edmondson also had a couple of half chances as St Pat's mined for further goals.

Better than in the first half, Galway laboured to regain some sort of foothold in the game but never worked Danny Rogers between the home posts.

Back at the other end, 17-year-old Ryan Sheridan, on for his league debut, almost had the final say when his shot was blocked by Devitt.

It mattered not as St Patrick's eased to a fifth victory by three goals or more this season.

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Date	Competition	Home Team		Away Team
October, 16th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Shelbourne	2	REPORT
September, 11th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	2	Shamrock Rovers	0	REPORT
September, 5th 2026	FAI Cup	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Bohemians	1	REPORT
August, 28th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	0	Waterford	2	REPORT
August, 16th 2026	FAI Cup	St Patrick's Athletic	3	Shamrock Rovers	2	REPORT
August, 2nd 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Derry City	1	REPORT
July, 24th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Dundalk	1	REPORT
July, 17th 2026	FAI Cup	St Patrick's Athletic	2	Wexford FC	1	REPORT
July, 14th 2026	Friendly	St Patrick's Athletic	2	Doncaster Rovers	4	REPORT
July, 3rd 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	3	Galway United	0	REPORT

Date	Competition	Home Team		Away Team
October, 23rd 2026	League	Galway United	0	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT
October, 19th 2026	League	Derry City	1	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT
September, 19th 2026	League	Sligo Rovers	0	St Patrick's Athletic	1	REPORT
September, 14th 2026	League	Dundalk	0	St Patrick's Athletic	4	REPORT
August, 21st 2026	League	Drogheda United	0	St Patrick's Athletic	2	REPORT
August, 9th 2026	League	Shelbourne	1	St Patrick's Athletic	2	REPORT
July, 10th 2026	League	Waterford	1	St Patrick's Athletic	1	REPORT
June, 30th 2026	Leinster Senior Cup	Bray Wanderers	2	St Patrick's Athletic	1	REPORT
June, 26th 2026	League	Bohemians	2	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT
May, 29th 2026	League	Shamrock Rovers	1	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT

Date	Competition	Home Team		Away Team
October, 23rd 2026	League	Galway United	0	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT
July, 3rd 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	3	Galway United	0	REPORT
May, 1st 2026	League	Galway United	2	St Patrick's Athletic	2	REPORT
March, 2nd 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Galway United	0	REPORT
September, 19th 2025	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Galway United	1	REPORT
September, 14th 2025	FAI Cup	St Patrick's Athletic	3	Galway United	1	REPORT
June, 20th 2025	League	Galway United	3	St Patrick's Athletic	1	REPORT
May, 2nd 2025	League	St Patrick's Athletic	2	Galway United	0	REPORT
February, 21st 2025	League	Galway United	2	St Patrick's Athletic	1	REPORT
October, 18th 2024	League	St Patrick's Athletic	2	Galway United	1	REPORT

Date	Competition	Home Team		Away Team
October, 23rd 2026	League	Galway United	0	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT
October, 19th 2026	League	Derry City	1	St Patrick's Athletic	0	REPORT
October, 16th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Shelbourne	2	REPORT
September, 19th 2026	League	Sligo Rovers	0	St Patrick's Athletic	1	REPORT
September, 14th 2026	League	Dundalk	0	St Patrick's Athletic	4	REPORT
September, 11th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	2	Shamrock Rovers	0	REPORT
August, 28th 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	0	Waterford	2	REPORT
August, 21st 2026	League	Drogheda United	0	St Patrick's Athletic	2	REPORT
August, 9th 2026	League	Shelbourne	1	St Patrick's Athletic	2	REPORT
August, 2nd 2026	League	St Patrick's Athletic	1	Derry City	1	REPORT