A chance to lift the gloom

GALWAY United manager Jeff Kenna will have to plan without three of his most influential players for tonight’s FAI Cup quarter final against Bray Wanderers in Terryland Park (kick-off 7.45pm).Iarflaith Davoren and Alan Murphy are both cup tied,the former having featured for Longford Town and the latter for Shamrock Rovers in the early stages of this year’s competition; while Jay O’Shea will miss the chance to put one over on his former team-mates for a second time this season as he serves a one-game suspension.O’Shea was on the scoresheet when United knocked Bray out of the League Cup at the same stage back in July, but the postponement of last week’s league clash with St Patrick’s Athletic means the one-game ban he was to serve instead carries forward to tonight.Derek O’Brien scored the other two goals in that 3-0 League Cup win two months ago, but he has moved to pastures now, along with eight other players, meaning United’s threadbare squad will be stretched to its limits for tonight’s game.Derek Glynn is .....