Coaches Pat Cleary and Alan Caffrey continued their roles in temporary charge of Bohemians, who turned in a fine second half display beating Waterford United 3-1 at Dalymount Park.
The last two meetings between the teams had produced ten goals and on this occasion the omens for Bohemians goals looked good from the off.
Four minutes in, Conor Powell penetrated the Waterord cover and fired over after latching onto the loose ball at the edge of the box.
Three minutes later Aidan O’Keeffe accelerated past three tackles and fired narrowly over, as did Stephen Ward in the tenth minute.
Bohemians' openings were in the main speculative efforts, as for Waterford, it took them fifteen minutes to register a shot on target.
Former Shelbourne player James Chambers forced the first save of the game from Stephen O’Brien before Bohs broke on the counter-attack.
Kevin Hunt carved open the visitors defence for Jason McGuinness to angle a looping header goalward, but the ball floated over.
Waterford edged in front on eighteen minutes after Ger McCarthy latched onto a 50-yard pass from Alan Reynolds which split the Bohs defence.
The unmarked McCarthy could hardly believe his luck as he went clean through and squeezed the ball past O’Brien.
Bohs equalised with a controversial goal at the start of the second half.
Waterford claimed a Bohs player was offside when O’Keeffe raced through the visitors' defence to score, and in the madness that followed Ger McCarthy and Alan Cawley received their marching orders.
Predictably the nine men of Waterford struggled for the remainder of the game and O’Keefe added two more goals on the counter-attack to complete his hat-trick.
His first arrived following a right wing foray from Stephen Rice, and on 72 minutes O’Keeffe took the ball from the half way line, rounded Ben Spicer and stroked the ball to an empty net.
