The claret-and-blues took the lead twice, but had to settle for a 2-2 draw at home to defending champions Shelbourne.

There were five games in the SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division on Friday evening.

The supplier is increasing the unit rate of its electricity by 12.75 per cent and the unit rate of its gas by 10.5 per cent.

Finance Minister Michael McGrath said there was ‘a lot of volatility’ in wholesale energy prices

There has been a 12.8 per cent decrease in domestic electricity rates and 11.5 per cent decrease in domestic gas rates.