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SSE Airtricity Premier Division Transfer List

Ahead of the 2016 League of Ireland season, Goal tracks the comings and goings at all 12 Premier Division clubs

BOHEMIANS

INS
Kurtis Byrne (Dundalk)
Ayman Ben Mohamed (Longford Town)
Mark Quigley (Derry City)

OUTS
Aaron Ashe (Drogheda United)
Jason Byrne (UCD)
Kealan Dillon (Longford Town)
Karl Moore (Bray Wanderers)

RENEWALS
Ismahil Akinade
Stephen Best
Daniel Byrne
Dean Delany
Adam Evans
Lorcan Fitzgerald
Dylan Hayes
Paddy Kavanagh
Jake Kelly
Roberto Lopes
Anto Murphy
Derek Pender
Derek Prendergast
Eoin Wearen

BRAY WANDERERS

INS
Ryan Brennan (Shamrock Rovers)
Alan Byrne (Drogheda United)
Mick Daly (Drogheda United)
Dean Kelly (Longford Town)
Conor Kenna (Shamrock Rovers)
Jason Marks (Drogheda United)
Karl Moore (Bohemians)
Ger Pender (Drogheda United)
Mark Salmon (Longford Town)

OUTS
Michael Barker (St Patrick's Athletic)Luke Fitzpatrick (Collinstown)
Luke Gallagher (Drogheda United)
Graham Kelly (St Patrick's Athletic)
Chris Lyons (Bray Wanderers)Ryan McEvoy (McKelvey Celtic)
Peter McGlynn (Longford Town)
Adam Mitchell (Retired)
Daniel O'Reilly (Longford Town)
David Scully (O'Devaney Dunard)
John Sullivan (Galway United)
Adam Wixted (Drogheda United)

RENEWALS
Peter Cherrie
Hugh Douglas

CORK CITY

INS
Greg Bolger (St Patrick's Athletic)
Kenny Browne (St Patrick's Athletic)
Stephen Dooley (Derry City)Sean Maguire (Dundalk)
Gearoid Morrissey (Cambridge United)
Ian Turner (Limerick)

OUTS
Billy Dennehy (St Patrick's Athletic)
Darren Dennehy (St Patrick's Athletic)
Stephen Folan (Galway United)
Liam Kearney (Released)Rob Lehane (Cobh Wanderers)Liam Miller
Dan Murray (Retired)
Kevin O'Brien
John O'Flynn (Limerick)

RENEWALS
Steven Beattie
Alan Bennett
Garry Buckley
Johnny Dunleavy
Colin Healy
Gavan Holohan
John Kavanagh
Mark McNulty
Michael McSweeney
Danny Morrissey
Kevin O'Connor
Mark O'Sullivan
Karl Sheppard
Alan Smith

DERRY CITY

INS

Jordan Allan (Montrose)

Cristian Delgado Flores (Fontsanta Fatjo)
Gareth McGlynn (Stirling Lions)
Harry Monaghan (Stenhousemuir)
Rory Patterson (FC United)

Niclas Vemmelund (IF Brommapojkarna)

OUTS
Ryan Curran (Finn Harps)
Stephen Dooley (Cork City)
Patrick McEleney (Dundalk)
Mark Quigley (Bohemians)
Mark Timlin (St Patrick's Athletic)

RENEWALS
Aaron Barry
Nathan Boyle
Ronan Curtis
Josh Daniels
Ger Doherty
Dean Jarvis
Ryan McBride
Patrick McClean
Conor McCormack
Aaron McEneff
Barry McNamee
Shaun Patton

DUNDALK

INS
Robbie Benson (UCD)
Patrick McEleney (Derry City)

OUTS
Kurtis Byrne (Bohemians)
Sean Maguire (Cork City)
Richie Towell (Brighton & Hove Albion)

RENEWALS
Paddy Barrett
Sean Gannon
Shane Grimes
Daryl Horgan
John Mountney
Georgie Poynton
Chris Shields

FINN HARPS

INS
Ryan Curran (Derry City)
Sean Houston (Derry City)
Ryan McConnell (Unattached)

OUTS
N/A

RENEWALS
Ciaran Coll
Gareth Harkin
Kevin McHugh
Tony McNamee

GALWAY UNITED

INS
Kevin Devaney (Sligo Rovers)
Vinny Faherty (Limerick)
Stephen Folan (Cork City)Ruairi Keating (Sligo Rovers)
John Sullivan (Bray Wanderers)

OUTS
Jake Keegan (Edmonton)

RENEWALS
Killian Cantwell
Ryan Connolly
Padraic Cunningham
Enda Curran
Colm Horgan
Kevin Horgan
Marc Ludden
Conor Melody
Cormac Raftery
Gary Shanahan
Paul Sinnott
Stephen Walsh
Conor Winn

LONGFORD TOWN

INS
Kealan Dillon (Bohemians)
Lee Duffy (Drogheda United)
Mark Hughes (Drogheda United)
Peter McGlynn (Bray Wanderers)
John McKeown (Cabinteely)
Ian Molloy (Rathcoole Boys)
Josh O'Hanlon (AFC Bournemouth, loan)
Daniel O'Reilly (Bray Wanderers)

OUTS
Dean Kelly (Bray Wanderers)
Ayman Ben Mohamed (Bohemians)
Mark Salmon (Bray Wanderers)
Lorcan Shannon (Shelbourne)
Gary Shaw (Shamrock Rovers)

RENEWALS
Keith Beirne
Karl Chambers
Philip Gannon
Rhys Gorman
Cian Fay
Pat Flynn
Noel Haverty
James Mulhall
Kevin O'Connor
David O'Sullivan
Conor Powell
Mark Rossiter
Kaleem Simon
Paul Skinner

SHAMROCK ROVERS

INS
Killian Brennan (St Patrick's Athletic)
Dean Clarke (Limerick)
Gary Shaw (Longford Town)

OUTS
Ryan Brennan (Bray Wanderers)
Tim Clancy (Sligo Rovers)
Damien Duff (Retired)
Cian Kavanagh (Shelbourne, loan)
Dylan Kavanagh (Shelbourne, loan)
Conor Kenna (Bray Wanderers)

RENEWALS
Gavin Brennan
Luke Byrne

SLIGO ROVERS

INS
Tobi Adebayo-Rowling (Peterborough United)
Tim Clancy (Shamrock Rovers)
Jaanai Gordon (West Ham - loan)
Jimmy Keohane (Woking)
Chris Lyons (Bray Wanderers)
Liam Martin (Ballinamallard United)
Ciaran Nugent (Harrisburg City Islanders)Jordan Richards (Notts County - loan)
Craig Roddan (Witton Albion)
Kieran Sadlier (Peterborough United)
Michael Schlingermann (Drogheda United)

OUTSDavid Cawley (St Patrick's Athletic)
Dinny Corcoran (St Patrick's Athletic)Kevin Devaney (Galway United)
Jason Hughes (Dorking Wanderers)Ruairi Keating (Galway United)
Danny Ledwith (Wexford Youths)

RENEWALS
Gary Armstrong
Gary Boylan
Raffaele Cretaro
Regan Donelon
Mikey Place
John Russell

ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC

INS
Michael Barker (Bray Wanderers)
David Cawley (Sligo Rovers)
Dinny Corcoran (Sligo Rovers)
Billy Dennehy (Cork City)
Darren Dennehy (Cork City)
Graham Kelly (Bray Wanderers)
Mark Timlin (Derry City)
Keith Treacy (Drogheda United)

OUTS
Greg Bolger (Cork City)Killian Brennan (Shamrock Rovers)
Kenny Browne (Cork City)Colm Deasy (Drogheda United)

RENEWALS
Ian Bermingham
Brendan Clarke

WEXFORD YOUTHS

INS
Matthew Connor (Waterford United)
Aidan Friel (Athlone Town)
Danny Ledwith (Sligo Rovers)
Paul Murphy (North End United)

OUTS
N/A

RENEWALS
Johnny Bonner
Gary Delaney
Ryan Delaney
Graham Doyle
Shane Dunne
Conor English
Danny Furlong
Lee Grace
Peter Higgins
Aidan Keenan
Craig McCabe
Eric Molloy
Andy Mulligan
Craig Wall

Sligo land defender Adebayo-Rowling on a permanent deal

Sligo Rovers have added to their foreign contingent with the signing Tobi Adebayo-Rowling from Peterborough United.

Adebayo-Rowling makes the switch after the Northamptonshire club agreed to cancel his contract in order to facilitate the move.

The 19-year-old full back previously worked with Sligo manager Dave Robertson at underage level with both Brighton & Hove Albion and Peterborough, and made his senior league debut under Robertson in the opening game of the 2015/16 season.

“He is a player that I have known for quite some time and I see him having a massive future in the game,” Robertson his club's website.

“He operates mainly as a right-back but can also play on the right wing so he brings more options to us there.

“He is an exceptionally strong defender and he also has a lot to offer us in attack. I am really quite excited to get this done.

“Defence was definitely an area I wanted to strengthen before and this helps us with that, I expect we will have another shortly. We are getting closer with this to getting the squad done as we move closer to the start of the season.

“There is still some talks ongoing and in the next week or two hopefully we still be adding some more strength to the squad, I would still like to bring in one more forward as well.”

Adebayo-Rowling is the third player to follow Robertson from Peterborough to Sligo after Kieran Sadlier and Jaanai Gordon made the switch, and brings to six the number of players signed from the English leagues.

Friendly Report: Bohemians 0 - 2 Shelbourne

A first-half brace from James English was enough to see Shelbourne overcome local rivals Bohemians in a pre-season friendly at Dalymount Park on Sunday afternoon.

It was Bohemians who created the first opening of the game after they forced an early corner which Fitzgerald planted onto the head of Derek Prendergast on the near post but Greg Murray was on his toes and gathered it into his grasp.

Soon after, Keith Buckley played a lovely ball through to Jake Kelly but his attempt to dink an onrushing Murray fell just wide of the post. 

However, despite Bohemians early control it was Shelbourne who broke the deadlock on the 11^thminute after Jamie Doyle received the ball out wide before whipping the perfect ball into the path of an oncoming English who made no mistake in slotting it beneath Dean Delaney and into the net.

Bohemians reacted well to the goal and began to pick up speed, creating a couple of half-chances for forward man Ismahil Akinade before he was forced off with a leg injury.

First, Akinade received the ball from Aymen Ben Mohammed just inside the 18 yard area before adjusting his body to get his shot away, however, it sailed above Murray’s crossbar.

Buckley and Roberto Lopes then combined well before laying it off to Akinade whose shot was surely bound for the bottom corner, however, it was deflected just wide of the post.

Lopes then spread the ball wide to Lorcan Fitzgerald who skimmed a fantastic through ball towards Akinade’s replacement Kurtis Byrne but Murray was quick off his line to clear it away before Byrne could make significant contact.

Byrne then carved out an opportunity of his own on the half-hour mark when his 30 yard effort looped just wide of the target.

Minutes later English doubled his and Shelbourne’s tally when a high ball dropped nicely to his feet at the edge of the six yard box before he squeezed it through Delaney’s legs and into the bottom of the goal.

The Gypsies almost pulled one back five minutes later when Byrne showed impressive speed down the left wing before dragging the ball back to Lopes but he failed to make a clear connection and it crawled wide of the target.

Eoin Wearen had the final chance of the half when he created a yard of space before hitting a stinging drive but Murray was again on hand to clutch the ball into his chest.

The chances continued to flow for Keith Long’s men in the opening period of the second forty-five. Byrne took the ball into his feet before hitting it with the outside of his boot to force Murray into a solid stop.

Byrne then switched the ball across to Buckley and his effort was again well saved by the in-form Murray.

Shelbourne substitute Mark Sandford’s dynamic pace began to cause the Bohemian’s defence some problems as he latched onto a number of long balls, keeping Delaney alert on his line to ensure he couldn’t add a third.

Fitzgerald almost grabbed a goal back for Bohemians on the hour mark when his sweetly struck free-kick was curling towards the top corner only for Murray’s outstretched palm to knock it wide of the crossbar.

Mark Quiqley then came onto the field and he came close when he turned inside the Shelbourne box before aiming his shot towards the bottom left corner but substitute ‘keeper Jack Brady’s impressive save kept it out.

With quarter of an hour left to play Bohemians had a strong case for a penalty when Byrne was played through on goal only for Brady to block him in his path to send him tumbling. The referee didn’t believe there was enough contact to warrant a spot kick and Byrne rose to his feet in dismay.

Shelbourne’s defence stood firm for the closing ten minutes to see out the game and secure an impressive pre-season victory for Kevin Doherty’s young squad.  

Bohemians FC: Dean Delaney (Lee Stacey 72), Lorcan Fitzgerald (Jason Caffrey 72), Derek Prendergast, Dan Byrne (Dylan Hayes 62), Roberto Lopes (James Kavanagh 62), Eoin Wearen (Mark Quiqley 69), Keith Buckley (Adam Evans 69), Jake Kelly (Paddy Kavanagh 52), Aymen Ben Mohammed, Anto Murphy, Ishmahil Akinade (Kurtis Byrne 25).

Subs not used: None

Shelbourne FC: Greg Murray (Jack Brady 62), Adam O’Connor (Conor Keeley 62), Ryan Robinson (Darragh Gannon 62), Dylan Kavanagh (Alan Kehoe 46), Robert O’Reilly (Stephen Kelly 76), Daire Doyle, Gareth Coughlan (Dylan Grimes 46), Cian Kavanagh, Gavin Boyne (Robert Duggan 30), Jamie Doyle (Stephen Meaney 76), James English (Mark Sandford, 46).

Subs not used: None

Attendance: 500 (estimated)

ExtraTime.ie Man of the Match: Greg Murray (Shelbourne)