Tickets remain on sale for Easter Monday’s Dublin Derby. The game kicks off at 2pm and will be televised on Virgin Media 2 with coverage from 1.30pm

We had an exciting 2-2 away draw away at St Pat’s on Friday. Having gone ahead 2-1 so late with Lee Grace’s header, did Joe Redmond’s even later equaliser almost feel like a defeat afterwards?

“We were four minutes away from winning the game and we’re usually very good in those situations. We’re disappointed with the equaliser we gave away as there were so many times in that move we could’ve stopped it at source. We had clear possession of the ball, and we make a silly decision and give it back to Pat’s with a free kick. There were a lot of unnecessary things that led up that goal. We were really frustrated at not winning the game.”

Our first half performance was arguably our best for some time. Despite that, we conceded the opening goal, but that didn’t derail us for the remainder of the half.

“First half I thought we played at a really high level. We completely dominated the game. The game should’ve been over at half time. We had three or four good chances that should kill the game. On another day we do that, especially with the personnel they fell to. We went behind against the run of play from a set play, again it was a silly decision from us at the set play, and we got punished. But overall, the first half was really good.”

Second half, you felt we were a little off our levels for the first twenty or so minutes. Could you see a reason for that or was it just a case of a good St Pat’s side having their turn to dominate?

“I don’t think it was. St Pat’s are obviously a good team, but it was more about what we were doing to allow that to happen. In the first half we weren’t doing that, and I think you could see the last twenty minutes we took the game again. But we can’t take breaks within games for that period of time because it doesn’t matter who you play, if you do that, you give the opposition momentum in the game and momentum in football is dangerous.”

Despite the late equaliser, it’s five wins and two draws in our last seven games, so we still go into our next Dublin Derby with Bohemians in a good place.

“Yes, we do. The team and players are in a really good place. We just need to stay focussed. Bohemians are a dangerous team, and we know that and it’s a Dublin Derby so as I say, we need to stay focussed for tomorrow.”

We lost to Bohs on the opening day of the league and, after a difficult spell, they’ve won two of their last three and only lost out to a solitary late goal to Shelbourne last week. So tomorrow is, as always, a difficult game for us.

“It will be a difficult game; there’s no doubt about it. Particularly when you have three Dublin Derbies in the space of seven days, it’s obviously tough. So tomorrow will be difficult but, as I said, the players are in a really good place and once we focus on what we do, the rest will look after itself.”

Danny Mandroiu and Gary O’Neill miss the Bohs game. Dylan Watts and Graham Burke came off against St Pat’s and Aaron McEneff also missed out. How are they and did everyone else emerge ok from Friday’s game?

“Dylan got a bad knock on his knee, he slid into the wall behind the Pat’s goal, but he seems fine and it’s just a knock. Graham is fine too. Aaron picked up a knock against Waterford and we just weren’t sure about it last Friday, so we’ll look at it again at training this morning. We didn’t want to take any chances with Aaron, again where it is in the season, we don’t want to be missing key players for long periods of time. It’s just a matter of being cautious with it and seeing what it is.”