St Patrick's Athletic 2 Bray Wanderers 0 A terrific goal from Keith Fahey sealed victory for St Patrick's at Richmond Park last night. Fahey struck to kill off Bray's challenge on 83 minutes when blasting home a right-foot shot from over 20 yards out after Gerard Rowe found him in space in the inside right channel.

A lack of discipline from Stephen Caffrey of St Patrick's had looked like giving Bray the lead on 24 minutes when he was booked for a late challenge on Philip Keogh. Barry Ryan parried away Hugh Davey's stinging free-kick and then Kieran O'Brien's first follow-up before Colm James put the ball into the St Patrick's net. A linesman's flag was immediately raised to disallow the goal for offside.

St Patrick's regained a grip on the game on the resumption, and, after Doyle and Rowe came close, the former opened the scoring from a freakish goal on 64 minutes. An unintentional touch on to Fahey's free-kick wrong-footed goalkeeper Chris O'Connor and Doyle continued his run and tapped the ball into the unguarded net.

ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC: Ryan; Quigley (Maher, 87 mins), C Foley, Maguire, Bell; Fahey, Caffrey, Donnelly, M Foley; Doyle (Dunne, 87 mins), Rowe.

BRAY WANDERERS: O'Connor; O'Hanlon, Lynch, Charles, Davey; James (McGrory, 74 mins), McGuinness, Keogh, Tresson; O'Brien (M Dunne, 86 mins), Zayed (R Dunne, 88 mins).

Referee: H Whoriskey (Dublin).