Bohemians continued their impressive form since the restart with a narrow 1-0 victory over Finn Harps. Keith Long's side were always in control of the match against their relegation-threatened opponents as Danny Grant scored the only goal of the ga
Bohemians recorded a first win at Finn Park since 2008 after a first-half goal from Daniel Grant sealed the points for Keith Long's team.
The result keeps Harps quest for a first league win going as they suffered a 9th defeat in 11 league games and remain rooted to the bottom of the table.
Kevin Long's side started the game all guns blazing, and had a good opportunity within 90 seconds to gain an early lead with James Finnerty and Daniel Grant both seeing headers test the home defence.
Nathan Boyle fashioned Finn Harps' first chance of the match on the quarter hour mark, his dipping volley from the edge of the area required James Talbot to stretch to deny the striker at a time when the hosts enjoyed some good possession.
Grant had a number of chances as the half wore on, his first couple were high or sliced wide but the winger got his goal to open the scoring in the 38th minute. Darragh Leahy played a long ball forward, Keith Ward latched onto it inside the area before crossing low, Dinny Corcoran looked certain to finish off the move but missed his strike which allowed the alert Grant to finish with aplomb from eight yards.
That lead was nearly doubled no more than a minute later. After Corcoran saw a close range effort rebound off the post, it fell for Ward but Gallagher rushed out to save the shot from point blank range as the Gypsies took the slender lead into the interval.
Harps had the better of the early exchanges in the second half, John Kavanagh went closest, his low cross aimed at Boyle on 50 minutes though was too close to Talbot. Horgan made some attacking changes to his side in the form of Tony McNamee and Mikey Place as Harps enjoyed their best spell of the game.
McAleer was the main threat for the hosts but Bohs showed exactly why they have only conceded three goals to date as Aaron Barry and Finnerty ousted any cross that was delivered in. Concrete chances were a luxury in the second half after the hour mark with Boyle seeing a late header saved by Talbot their best chance for the hosts to steal a late point.
The result sees Bohs move onto 20 points, still behind Shamrock Rovers but with two games in hand while Harps remain stuck on two points from 11 games.
