Photos Courtesy of Sportsfile SLIGO born John Mahon of Waterford FC is the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for August. The 26-year-old, experienced centre-half topped the SWI nationwide poll with 58 votes to pip Dundalk’s previous winner, Daryl Horgan with Derry City’s Michael Duffy, another previous winner this season, in third place. Mahon, the former Sligo Rovers defender, has been excellent at the back for the RSC based Suirsiders as their league

Photo Courtesy of Sportsfile GOLDEN BOOT-chasing Tommy Lonergan of Waterford has won the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month award for July. The Dunboyne-born Lonergan continued to spearhead the Blues resurgence and has firmly taken hold of the League's golden boot race with two more goals as well as two assists in July to leave the 22 year-old now ahead by four in the race for the domestic end-of-season Golden Boot award. The in-form striker and ex-Flee

World Cup-bound Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes of Shamrock Rovers and New York-born Kelly Brady scooped the annual SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Personality of the Year awards at Friday’s gala ceremony in Dublin. Lopes, who captained the Hoops to an SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division and FAI Cup double for the first time since 1987, topped the ballot of football media, ahead of his manager Stephen Bradley and Shelbourne boss Joey O’Brien. Lopes became the first player for fi