First Division wrap: Waterford bounce back in style, while Kerry make history with their first LOI win

Waterford's winless run in the SSE Airtricity League First Division is over following their 5-0 victory over Cobh Ramblers at the RSC on Friday night.

After successive defeats to Wexford and Galway United, Ronan Coughlan gave the Blues the lead with just seven minutes on the clock and they never once relinquished their grip over their east coast rivals.

This was a just reward as their first attack of the game, which started with goalkeeper Paul Martin, led to a low ball into the box from Dean McMenamy and it narrowly missed Coughlan at the back post.

When the striker did get a touch in the area, it was to head in a cross that Killian Cantwell sent in from the right hand side.

McMenamy almost made it 2-0 but his attempt got stopped at the near post by Lee Steacy after the midfielder twisted free in the box.

Things got worse for Cobh after this as Shane Keegan was forced into an early substitution with Lee Desmond coming on for Dale Holland in the 17th minute.

A training ground routine almost gave Waterford their third as a short corner was sent to Roland Idowu by Barry Baggley. The ball was then crossed in to Giles Philips and his header got stopped by a stretched Steacy.

Cobh then cut through Waterford with some crisp passing, and James O’Leary played Wilson Waweru through on the right hand side. He was denied by the legs of Martin and Cantwell put the loose ball out for a corner, which was easily caught by the Waterford goalkeeper.

Michael McCarthy also tried something, and this attempt from outside the area was blocked by a well organised Blues backline.

Waterford quickly stopped Cobh from creating anything else, and they pushed up in numbers after this.

Idowu picked out Griffin during this advance, and he set himself up to