Bolger keen to build on 90-minute Cobh performance - starting with UCD

Cork City's Greg Bolger has been there and done it. He has the medals to show for his distinguished career plying his trade in the upper echelons of the League of Ireland. 

Bolger, who once called Cork home - during a hugely successful spell back in 2016 and 2017 - has now returned to Leeside in his 36th year, aiming to help the club to a swift return to the top-tier of Irish football. 

The holding midfielder has been part of a steady, if not spectacular, start to City's First Division campaign that has them sitting in pole position heading into matchday 10. 

Tim Clancy's charges visit the capital to take on third-placed UCD on Friday night, a haunt Bolger once resided in himself, from 2007 to 2010. 

In the Wexford native's view, their trip to the UCD Bowl is a chance to build on their convincing three-nil win over rivals Cobh Ramblers a week ago. 

"It was probably our best performance, as strange as the night was with the conditions," Bolger told the Irish Examiner. "It was pleasing, because the week before, that second-half against Wexford...to come back and put on our best performance of the season was good from a group standpoint. 

"We're happy now to keep going and try to build on that performance. You'd have seen this year, it's been fits and starts at times, we'd have good halves and bad halves. 

"So, I think that's the aim for us, the question that has been asked of us as a group has been 'can we do it for the 90?'. That's a start so we need to keep that going now."

Well documented in recent days has been the closure of Turner's Cross to facilitate works on a playing surface in need of some TLC. 

While Bolger acknowledges pitches have played a part in their somewhat low-scoring start, he notes last Friday's