The top-of-the-table clash between Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians will now go ahead as planned after talks between the FAI and the clubs this afternoon.
Saturday week’s game in Tallaght appeared to be off earlier today after two players from both clubs were called up for an Ireland Under-21 training camp next week.
Hoops duo Neil Farrugia and Liam Scales were picked by Jim Crawford, who officially announces his squad tomorrow.
And Bohs had no complaints about postponing because Danny Grant and Danny Mandroiu were also called up.
But new League of Ireland director Mark Scanlon said this evening: "At the minute the game is going ahead. I don't see that it will change.
“We've been in consultation with both clubs and they’re happy with the arrangements we have in place at the minute.
"We've been trying to work together on it to make sure there's a solution that suits everybody.
"We had extra conversations with the clubs and some of the things in the Under-21 situation would have changed in terms of when the camp was starting and finishing from the initial correspondence that would have gone out to the clubs."
Those training camp tweaks mean the four players will now be available to their clubs, although only for one training session in the build-up.
Scanlon continued: "The fixture calendar is tight, we always knew it was going to be tight. The international schedule has been very much up in the air.
The Under-21s were due to travel to Slovenia for a friendly on September 7 but that was cancelled because of the pandemic.
Instead, Crawford gathers his squad for a camp in the North as preparation for key qualifiers against Italy, Iceland and Luxembourg in October and November.
Farrugia, Scales, Grant and Mandroiu will miss respective FAI Cup second round matches on Monday with Rovers-Cork and Bohs-Cabinteely set to go ahead.
At lunchtime today, Bohs boss Keith Long had said: “It crossed my mind to postpone the game, absolutely.
“It's perfectly understandable. Neil Farrugia and Liam Scales are playing in their team. They both played last week against Shelbourne.
“I’ve no issues that Rovers want to postpone the game because we're in the same boat ourselves.
“It shouldn't be a situation where you've an international window with a league game and a cup game scheduled in the same week. That doesn't work.”
Long continued: “Because we're such a young league - and this is the point - you're going to have these players in U21 squads.
“You have to make allowances in your calendar for international windows, it's not rocket science.”
