Hibernian have announced a pre-season friendly away to Shamrock Rovers to commemorate the club’s 150th anniversary.

The Edinburgh side also released a special edition hooped kit at the beginning of this season, to pay homage to their Irish heritage.

They will swap the capital of Scotland for the capital of Ireland when they make the trip to Tallaght Stadium for the fixture on June 29th.

And the Hibees will be hoping this is the first stamp of many on their passports as their fight fourth place with Motherwell ramps up.

The club will also be operating a fanzone in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, with a first drink included in the price of a ticket.

Hibs go into the split off the back of a 2-0 loss at Aberdeen, leaving them three points behind fourth placed Motherwell and five ahead of Falkirk.

David Gray remains optimistic of leap-frogging the Steelmen in the tail end of the campaign.

He spoke to Hibs TV after the loss: “Now we go into the split, and there’s no better fixture for the players and supporters to look forward to than a derby to try and get a reaction.

“I’ve just reminded the players of that. We’ve got five games to go. We haven’t lost ground on Motherwell because of other results, but we do have a game less, so it makes it more difficult.

“Do we feel it’s an opportunity missed? Yes, given how we came into the game. But we can’t feel sorry for ourselves. We can still achieve what we set out to do.

“It’s going to be tough, it will take five big performances, but I believe in the group and I believe we’re good enough to do it.”

Hibs have this week off before kicking-off their split fixtures with the final Edinburgh derby of the season at Easter Road the following Sunday.