mooney was a revelation in his only season with cork city, racing to the top of the goalscoring charts again. he was widely regarded as one of the best players in the league. a particularly impressive showing against derry city at the brandywell saw mooney score twice in a minute to bring the game (which derry had dominated) level at 2–2, and come close to completing his hat-trick just moments later with a speculative 30-yard effort that came back off an upright (a spectacular goal from denis behan eventually gave cork all three points). before european football came to turner's cross midway through the season, mooney had scored 18 goals in total, and broken his teammate behan's record for a scoring run by netting 11 goals in six matches. he then scored on his european debut, in a 2–2 uefa cup draw with finnish side fc haka .