Derry City stopped the rot of successive defeats with their first clean sheet of the season in frustrating in-form St Patrick’s Athletic at Richmond Park.
In a generally poor game of few clearcut chances, the stalemate ended St Pat’s four-match winning run as Derry finally made some capital gain having already lost to Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne this season.
Looking for a reaction to Friday’s poor performance in defeat at home to Shels, Derry started confidently with Darragh Markey mining the game’s first opening for Barry Cotter whose shot was cleared.
Working hard to play their way into the game, Saints threatened for the first time on 16 minutes, Sean Hoare heading over from a…