PADDY McCOURT IS leaving Luton Town a year ahead of schedule.
The League Two club announced today that the Derry-born winger plans to return to Ireland after requesting an early release from the two-year contract he signed last summer.
“Paddy has had to face up to some personal problems in recent weeks and at the end of the season he came to me about his future and it was soon clear to me that he wanted to return to Northern Ireland to be closer to his family and to play there again.
“It wasn’t a straightforward decision for me. Paddy has done well for us, but in the end we reached an agreement and he goes with my blessing,” said Luton Town manager Nathan Jones.
McCourt, who has been capped 17 times by Northern Ireland but hasn’t been included in their provisional Euro 2016 squad, played 26 times for Luton this past season.
The 32-year-old joined the Hatters last July after a season as a Brighton & Hove Albion player, the latter stages of which he spent on loan at Notts County. McCourt previously had a season at Barnsley after a five-year stint at Celtic came to an end.
McCourt began his professional career at Rochdale before joining Shamrock Rovers in 2005. After lighting up the League of Ireland for the Hoops, financial difficulties forced the Dublin club to sell McCourt to Derry City, where he continued to impress until being snapped up by Celtic in ’08.
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Cmon rory, hope he holds on. If he does get caught though how could anyone begrudge sergio a major. Especially the british open.
Great round of golf by shane lowry today, 65 in the final round in a major is world class.
His “f— it”, shot on camera on the 18th green was priceless
Great round Shane. Well done.Come on Rory. Irish Golfers simply the best :-)
He doesn’t consider himself Irish though?
Thumbs down from the bandwagon jumpers!
Amazing to think that if he had not blown the masters he’d have had a career slam at only 25
Hold on Rory
Stand up for the Ulster man! Brilliant stuff from Rory!
That sham of a flag which he will wrap himself in later.
What ? The Offaly flag?
Go home Mark Kelly you’re drunk.
Rory handing off that fat kid, lolololol.
Three Irish men in the top 10
Heckler has been kicked out for giving McIlroy hassle – wonder if it was Olympic related
C’mon fowler and if you can’t win and looking to big an ask come on Garcia
Don’t like him at all but I suppose it is good for a British person to win the British Open
He’s British by choice though. His caddie is Irish so a good day for us too.
Kinda anyway. Don’t want to go stealing British athletes. They do that to us often enough!
Get in the hole!
Doesn’t look like Lowry’s going to win.. does it?
He has plenty of time to practice seeing as he’s not are signing autographs for children now. Just push them out of the way and get your scorescard in eh For?