Stephen Kenny's men ran out comfortable winners to ease the pressure on his position.
As the rugby team comes to terms with their World Cup elimination, the footballers did enough to avoid the wooden spoon.
3,000 Ireland fans, a smattering of curious neutrals holidaying nearby and a handful of Gibraltar fans nestled into the 30,000-capacity Estadio Algarve on a balmy night. If nothing else, his youthful team played their part here by providing him with just his sixth competitive win in 28 games. And he might have opened the scoring a minute before that had Jason Knight spotted him breaking from a Gibraltar corner, but Knight wasted the opportunity.Kenny’s men will have had tougher in-house 11 v11s and were already dialling it up a notch before stretching their lead in the 29th minute.
Coleing denied Johnston a second soon after by racing to the edge of the box to clear Jamie McGrath’s through ball.
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