Eire. Ups and downs all around the league, but one club was always the same. It did not matter that Sligo Rovers, champions not long ago, were now dead last.
Nor that Drogheda United was lowly as ever – 11th – but won the League Cup.
No matter that such usual leaders as Dundalk and Limerick City were out of shape, correspondingly, 7th (Dundalk) and 4th (Limerick). No matter what, Shamrock Rovers remained on top.
So, one more confident title, after keeping everybody else at bay. 19 wins, 4 ties, 3 losses, 64-15 goal-difference and 42 points. Bohemians, 2nd, was left 6 points behind. Well, at least it looks like a regular, normal, routine victory – this was the 10th title for Rovers, but… the 9th was won in the long gone 1964.