Shamrock Rovers - 2 St Patrick's Athletic - 1:NATIONAL LEAGUE: The tenants made the landlord pay at Richmond Park last night as Shamrock Rovers punished some wasteful St Patrick's Athletic finishing to plunder maximum points in an entertaining Dublin derby.

The nominal visitors, St Patrick's, took the lead on 11 minutes after deadball specialist Martin Russel curled a 20-yard free-kick over the wall and into the bottom right-hand corner of Tony O'Dowd's net.

Shamrock Rovers then dominated the remainder of the first half but could not create any genuine openings and when they finally did so in the second half, strikers Noel Hunt and Trevor Molloy found their sights were misaligned.

Fortunately for Rovers, left full-back James Keddy was not so wasteful. In the 69th minute he was sent raiding forward by Maltese international Luke Dimesch and, after a smart one-two with Molloy, slipped the ball underneath Seamus Kelly for a deserved equaliser.

And in the third minute of injury time, he emerged from a goalmouth scramble to hammer in a winner which sparked a mini-invasion of the pitch.

SHAMROCK ROVERS: T O'Dowd, S. Gough, J Keddy, D Tracy (P Caffrey 25 mins), T Palmer, R Byrne, S Robinson, T Molloy, N Hunt, L Dimesch, S Grant.

ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC: S Kelly, T Croly, P Donnelly, R McGuinness (L Kelly 79), J Harris, C Foely, P Osam, M Russell (C Livingstone 74), G McCarthy, K Doyle (R Griffin) T Bird.

Referee: J Feighery (Dublin).