Watch: Shelbourne's Jamie Doyle completes hat-trick with a sensational long-range drive

Shelbourne gave Drogheda United a proper battering in Ireland's EA Sports Cup last night, progressing to the third round with a 7-2 win.

The bigger story, though, was Jamie Doyle's hat-trick which was wrapped up with this stunning hit from all of 35 yards – and more or less on the stroke of full-time, too. 

(From 0.30 onwards in the video)

The result itself was a shocker: Drogheda are actually a place above Shelbourne in the League Of Ireland First Division, sitting in third - although they did field something of a youthful line-up for this game. (Still, it went better than this team in Bolivia.)

Drogheda handed out a beating of their own just four days ago, winning 5-1 away from home at struggling Cobh Ramblers. Goals! 

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Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.