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**redrov2005** · 06/01/2005, 1:48 PM

The following is an article from the FAI website. Fancy any of these players ?
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With the majority of clubs less than a fortnight from returning to pre-season training in preparation for the 2005 season, managers have been busy in the transfer market over the last seven weeks.

With the transfer window opening on Friday morning, clubs will begin registering the players that they have signed over the last number of weeks while, for others, there will be a chance to start talking to players about to released from clubs abroad.

Clubs are different points in their preparations for the season at present with some, like League champions Shelbourne, having already signed five new players for the coming season; Glen Crowe, Bobby Ryan, Colin Hawkins, Richie Baker and Gary O’Neill.

Waterford United have also been busy in the transfer market snapping up UCD duo Willie Doyle and Sean Finn among others though no one has been busier than Dublin City manager Dermot Keely who has signed 13 new players for the forthcoming season.

Others, meanwhile, are still in talks with players with Shamrock Rovers’ manager Roddy Collins promising a number of signings before the start of the season, Bohemians’ boss Gareth Farrelly also planning to bolster his squad having lost nine players during the close season while Sligo Rovers manager Sean Connor will make three signings in the coming days.

At Limerick, new manager Noel O’Connor has insisted he will hit the ground running and is planning talks with the club’s current players over the new number of days while he is also talking to a number of players at other clubs while the Kilkenny City board will meet this weekend to discuss a replacement for outgoing manager Ger Bickerstaffe who resigned in November.

Below is the list of ins and outs at all 22 eircom League clubs.

Bohemians
In:
Dessie Byrne (St Patrick’s Athletic)

Out:
Damian Lynch (Drogheda United)
Simon Webb (Drogheda United)
Colin Hawkins (Shelbourne)
Glen Crowe (Shelbourne)
Bobby Ryan (Shelbourne)
Stephen Caffrey (St Patrick’s Athletic)
Paul McNally (Released)
Tadhg Murphy (Athlone Town)
Garreth Cooney (Kildare County)

Bray Wanderers
In:
Philip Keogh (Longford Town)

Out:
Eddie Gormley (Retired)
Maurice Farrell (Retired)
Robbie McGuinness (Released)

Cork City
In:
None

Out:
None

Derry City
In:
None:

Out:
Robbie Hedderman (Dublin City)
Michael Holt (Released)
Gareth Mullan (Omagh)
Ciaran Kelly (Released)

Drogheda United
In:
Damian Lynch (Bohemians)
Simon Webb (Bohemians)
Shane Robinson (Shamrock Rovers)
Dan Connor (Waterford United)
Graham Gartland (Longford Town)
Sami Ristila (FC Haka, Finland)

Out:
Mark Quinless (St Patrick’s Athletic)
Gary Cronin (Released)
John Flanagan (Athlone Town)
john Lester (Released)
Brian Kelly (Released)
Aidan Lynch (Released)
Glen Lacey (Released)
Sean McLare (Released)

Finn Harps
In:
Trevor Bonnar (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England)
Seamus Boyle (Rochdale)

Out:
Tom Mohan (Released)
Alan Keely (Dublin City)
Martin Ferry (Released)

Longford Town
In:
John McNicholas (Athlone Town)

Out:
Graham Gartland (Drogheda United)
Brian Byrne (Released)
Philip Keogh (Bray Wanderers)

St. Patrick's Athletic
In:
Paul Caffrey (Bohemians)
Michael Foley Sheridan (unattached, formerly Liverpool)
Barry Ryan (Dublin City)
Mark Quinless (Drogheda United)

Out:
Mark Casey (Released)
Chris Adamson (Released)
Karim El Khebir (Released)
Jimmi Lee Jones (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

Shamrock Rovers
In:
None

Out:
Shane Robinson (Drogheda United)
Pat Deans (Released)
Liam Kelly (Released)

Shelbourne
In:
Glen Crowe (Bohemians)
Bobby Ryan (Bohemians)
Colin Hawkins (Bohemians)
Gary O’Neill (Dublin City)
Richie Baker (New England Revolution, USA)

Out:
Thomas Morgan (Released)
Alan McDermott (Released)
Alan Murphy (Released)
Ger McCarthy (Released)
Juan Sara (Released)
Tony McCarthy (Retired)

UCD
In:
None

Out:
Willie Doyle (Waterford United)
Sean Finn (Waterford United)
Philip Hughes (Released)

Waterford United
In:
Willie Doyle (UCD)
Sean Finn (UCD)
Niall Andrews (Kilkenny City)
Mark Andrews (Kilkenny City)
Stevie Yelverton (Cobh Ramblers)
Colm Heffernan (Sligo Rovers)

Out:
Dan Connor (Drogheda United)
Jose Quitongo (Released)
Wayne Fitzgerald (Retired)

Athlone Town
In:
Alan O’Connor (Monaghan United)
Andy Noonan (Dundalk)
Gavin Doyle (Monaghan United)
Danny O’Leary (Kildare County)
Tadhg Murphy (Bohemians)
John Flanagan (Drogheda United)

Out:
Anthony Fennelly (Cobh Ramblers)
John McNicholas (Longford Town)

Cobh Ramblers
In:
Anthony Fennelly (Athlone Town)
Ken Kiely (Cork City)

Out:
Jonathan Coker (Released)
Eoghan Conlon (Released)
Anthony Wolfe (Released)
Tony Tynan (Released)
Stevie Yelverton (Waterford United)

Dublin City
In:
Trevor Vaughan (Dundalk)
Ben Whelehan (Waterford United)
Alan Keely (Finn Harps)
Robbie Hedderman (Dublin City)
Brendan Kennedy (Kildare County)
Ray Scully (Kildare County)
Alan Kelly (Kildare County)
Philip Gorman (Kilkenny City)
Alan Mulcahy (Kilkenny City)
Paul Shiels (Monaghan United)
Robbie Collins (Monaghan United)
David McGill (Tolka Rovers)
John Browne (Dundalk)

Out:
Paul Crowley (Waterford United)
Gary O’Neill (Shelbourne)
Robbie Farrell (Released)
Robbie Horgan (Monaghan United)
Barry Ryan (St Patrick’s Athletic)
Keith Rowland (Released)
Ronnie Henry (Released)
Tony O’Connor (Released)
Grant Cooper (Released)
Adam Rundle (Released)
Dom Tierney (Released)
Peter Hynes (Released)
Marc Kenny (Released)

Dundalk
In:
None

Out:
Trevor Vaughan (Dublin City)
Brendan Kelly (Released)
Paul Marney (Released)
Robert Dunne (Released)
Robbie Clarke (Kildare County)
Andy Noonan (Athlone Town)
John Browne (Dublin City)

Galway United
In:
None

Out:
Robert Forde (Released)
Nigel Keady (Released)
Damien Dupuy (Released)

Kildare County
In:
Robbie Clarke (Dundalk)
Garreth Cooney (Bohemians)

Out:
Brendan Kennedy (Dublin City)
Ray Scully (Dublin City)
Alan Kelly (Dublin City)
Danny O’Leary (Athlone Town)

Kilkenny City
In:
None

Out:
Philip Gorman (Dublin City)
Alan Mulcahy (Dublin City)
Niall Andrews (Waterford United)
Mark Andrews (Waterford United)

Limerick
In:
None

Out:
None:

Monaghan United
In:
Robbie Horgan (Dublin City)
David Lee (Shelbourne)

Out:
Paul Shiels (Dublin City)
Robbie Collins (Dublin City)
Alan O’Connor (Athlone Town)
Gavin Doyle (Athlone Town)

Sligo Rovers
In:
None

Out:
Colm Heffernan (Waterford United)
Keith Carty (Released)
Darren Jack (Released)
Damien Scanlon (Released)
John Straker (Released)
Ramuel Miller (Released)
Rivere Williams (Released)
Andy Neary (Released)
Mark Cassidy (Released)
Alan Flynn (Released)
Fergus Quinn (Released)
Joey Moloney (Released)

**showgies** · 06/01/2005, 2:13 PM

Ramuel Miller & Reviere Williams

**redrov2005** · 06/01/2005, 4:57 PM

Also see that Conor O'Grady has been released by Derry City. I imagine Harps/Longford will be interested in him,but i wonder is he one of Sean Connor's " players with Premier division experience" ????...

**gustavo** · 07/01/2005, 1:05 AM

according to the derry forum we are the favourites to sign him

**Petmuller** · 07/01/2005, 2:53 PM

I notice that Harps have parted company with Tom Mohan. Now he's a fine player and certainly would do a great job for us. He's also named in the Eircom League First Division eleven which speaks volumnes.
I also think Conor O' Grady would be the man to lead us out of the doldrums, I certainly hope that the club has the ambition to go get both these players.