St Patrick’s Athletic’s title ambitions took another blow as they were held by an impressive Waterford at Richmond Park to cap a very damaging week for the hosts.
A sensational first half brace from 17-year-old Mason Melia looked to have rescued three points for the Saints who fell behind to Tommy Lonergan’s second minute strike before Conan Noonan equalised with ten minutes remaining.
Stephen Kenny’s side are now nine points adrift of current runaway leaders Shamrock Rovers while Waterford have lost just once in six outings.
It took the visitors just 73 seconds to open the scoring and it came through former Saint Lonergan. A hopeful clip forward by Noonan wasn’t dealt with by Sean Hoare and…