BBC Sport NI takes a look at five big talking points ahead of the start of the League of Ireland Premier Division season.

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He is the son of an Irish League legend but Cillian McCann is fast making his own name in football. The 17-year-old defender ...

The number of scores per game have practically doubled in one of the top divisions since the FRC's new rules came in ...

The concept of Irish people being eliminated ... means that there will be no European football next season unless they actually win the Conference League. Molde are incredibly lucky to still ...

Stephen Kenny can return St Patrick's Athletic to the promised land as the most hyped League of Ireland season of all-time begins on Friday. Saints were the best team in the league after Kenny took ...

Shelbourne won a first League of Ireland Premier Division title ... St Pat's Athletic and Derry City to claim the biggest prize in Irish football. Now, all eyes will be on Duff's side to see ...

From the grandees Stephen Kenny and John Caulfield to the Republic of Ireland gaffers-in-waiting ... defeat to Drogheda denying them European football. Cue a mass exodus of senior players.

At times it felt like it was the league that nobody wanted to win ... St Pat's Athletic and Derry City to claim the biggest prize in Irish football. Now, all eyes will be on Duff's side to ...