2026 kick-off for ‘graveyard’ League of Ireland First Division takes place at an appropriate date

IT is difficult to work out which is more fitting about the start date of the First Division. Valentine’s weekend because cynical fans become hopeless romantics . . . or that opening night is Friday the 13th.  The division no one wants to be in was labelled the ‘graveyard’ by Dermot Keely when his Shelbourne side plied their trade...