Damien Duff tired of Ireland manager saga as Shelbourne await punishment for smoke bomb incident

Leaders Shelbourne host Bohs in a sold-out Dublin derby at Tolka but Reds boss braced for potential ban on travelling Shels fans for Galway fixtureDamien Duff: 'We’ll take our medicine when it comes. You hear maybe is it the Galway game .' Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

“But, here, outside of that, roll on the women’s tonight. The League of Ireland is the shining light of Irish football. You’d say the women are on a par with it. Can’t wait to watch that game tonight.Duff exhaled for what seemed like 140 days. On the home front, the League of Ireland will sanction Shelbourne on Wednesday after a smoke bomb, thrown from their supporters’ section at Weavers Park in Drogheda last Friday, struck linesman Dermot Broughton. A potential ban on Shelbourne fans travelling to away games was addressed.

Duff has invited the culprit, who could be a child, to attend a Shelbourne training session so he could turn the incident into a teaching moment for the league’s increasingly younger fan base. Duff added: “I have made loads of mistakes in my life. I’m certainly no angel. I was pointing the finger on Friday night but I want to help.

“If you think I’m lying, go look at it. Again I’ve got the footage, Weaver’s Park and a big bottle half full of God knows what at the weekend, coming in from the home stand. I’m not trying to drag down everyone with me but it’s a league problem and it needs to be sorted sooner rather than later.”

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