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It now looks like Athlone Town will still be a League of Ireland club next season after it was revealed at a meeting this week (January 5) that more than half the club’s outstanding debt has been raised in less than a month.

In a dramatic and suffen move, Galway United have been forced to appoint a new manager after Jeff Kenna resigned to take over St Patrick’s Athletic.

Galway United have retained midfielder Jay O'Shea after his proposed move to Derby County was called off due to a deterioration in the financial situation at the English club.

Mervue United have began their preparations for life in the Eircom League first division with the first of four pre-season friendlies.

The League of Ireland makes a welcome return tomorrow, and two Galway clubs will be anxious to make positive statements on the first night of competitive action in 2009.

It is both strange and refreshing how one road win can have such a galvanising effect. This time last week Galway United were entering the new League of Ireland season without any expectations, interest was low, the beauty of the 2008 great escape long since forgotten.

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Having suffered an opening night defeat Mervue United’s League of Ireland adventure lingers on tomorrow at Jackman Park.

League football can be a grind when results aren’t agreeable so Mervue United will be especially eager to arrest a losing sequence at Terryland Park tomorrow night. That Finn Harps, in the Premier Division last year, are the visitors merely adds to the task.

Throughout the years Gortakeegan has been a venue in which the most illustrious clubs in the country have suffered, and the League of Ireland’s latest arrival, Mervue United, make the trek to the venue on the outskirts of Monaghan town forearmed and forewarned.