Frantic run-in for Finn Harps as date set for Wexford FC game

Finn Harps will play three games in the last eight days of the season as the SSE Airtricity Men's First Division match between the Donegal side and Wexford has been re-fixed for Monday, 14 October.

The game at Finn Park was originally due to kick off this Friday at 7.45pm but Wexford's involvement in a Sports Direct FAI Cup semi-final against Drogheda United on Sunday afternoon (live on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player) means the fixture had to be moved.

Wexford currently occupy fourth place in the second tier, while Finn Harps are sixth, four points outside the top five places that would secure a place in the promotion play-offs.

The rescheduling of their head-to-head meeting means Finn Harps will now play three matches in the span of the final week of the regular season, with the Wexford game sandwiched between a trip to Bray Wanderers on Friday, 11 October and a final-day home fixture against Treaty United the following Friday.

Harps' manager Darren Murphy recently told Donegal Live that the club had offered alternative dates for the Wexford game and outlined that the Ballybofey-based side had been accommodating when away matches at Cork City and Cobh Ramblers saw the venues switched to home games earlier this season. The club also had to move a home match against UCD in April to a 5pm kick-off time due to a floodlight issue.

"We could go 14 days without a game and then have to play Friday-Monday-Friday in the last week of the season," Murphy said.

"We offered five dates - three in September and two in October - but unfortunately they weren't suitable to people. You live and you learn. There were certain games this year where we were told that we had to play on a certain day at a certain time.

"Every season, you learn something and