Derry City 1 Cork City 4:Derry City are now playing catch-up having fallen nine points off the pace in the Premier Division following last night's embarrassing defeat to Cork City.
It certainly appears that Pat Fenlon has his problems, the Foylesiders having now lost at home for the second time in five league matches.
Cork, in what will surely be regarded as one of the best performances of the season, broke the deadlock when Roy O'Donovan drove the ball home after Derry's debutant goalkeeper Ola Tidman parried a John O'Flynn shot into his path in the 12th minute.
While the home side equalised three minutes later through Peter Hutton, Cork struck again four minutes before the break when Admir Softic took advantage of another defensive error.
It was clear that the visitors were content to defend their lead after the break and, with Derry failing to score, Cork struck again in the 80th minute.
A Darragh Ryan corner was headed home by Dan Murray before substitute Denis Behan rubbed salt into the Derry City wounds with a lobbed goal as the game entered injury-time.
DERRY CITY: Tidman; McCallion (McHugh 77 mins), Oman, Hutton, Rogers; McCourt (Moore, 27 mins), Higgins, Molloy, Brennan; Beckett (Hynes, 57 mins), Farren.
CORK CITY: Devine; Horgan, Kelly, Murray, Ryan; Lordan, Gamble, O'Donovan, Softic, Kearney (Woods, 83 mins); O'Flynn (Behan, 69 mins).
Referee: Ian Stokes (Dublin).
Ireland got their Uefa Women's Under-19 Elite Phase qualification series off to a winning start against Portugal yesterday at the Stade Robert Barran in France.
Aine O'Gorman scored the only goal of the game in first half injury-time to give her side a three points and bolster their prospects of qualification.
The Republic of Ireland under-16's defeated Japan 5-2 in the seventh place play-off in the Montaigu Tournament in France.
Aaron Doran opened the scoring for Ireland before Japan equalised. James Wallace set Jason Hughes up to see Ireland take the lead again and Hughes made it 3-1 just after half-time.
Conor Hourihane then put the game beyond Japan and Karl Sheppard got Ireland's fifth goal.
