Luke Byrne daring to dream at the heart of Damien Duff's Shelbourne

"Without doubt, it absolutely would be the pinnacle of my career."

For a player with a World Cup goal for Ireland and Premier League winner's medals among a host of other achievements, it's clear the prospect of potentially winning the FAI Cup as a manager occupies some of Damien Duff's dreamscape.

There's still a long way to go for his Shelbourne side though. But steady progress has been made in this year's competition, with the high point being the impressive swatting aside of Bohemians in the quarter-final on Sunday to book a last-four clash against First Division Waterford who have already shown a propensity to rise to the occasion.

The mantra of taking things one game a time still holds true for Shels' staff and their young squad but that isn't stopping captain Luke Byrne from daring to dream of lifting the prestigious trophy.

"I've visualised it even before the quarter-final," he told RTÉ Sport at the Aviva Stadium this week as EA Sports announced the return of the SSE Airtricity League Club Packs in FIFA 23.

"I've visualised it and it helped motivate me for Sunday and (winning the cup) would be the best day of my life, the biggest achievement of my life. I couldn't imagine anything better. So of course I'm going to dream about it and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure it happens and as a team that's all we have to do."

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The manner of the victory over Bohs went against the grain of recent results. They had gone five league games without winning, the last three of