WATERFORD HAVE CONFIRMED that Aaron Drinan’s second spell with the club has come to an end.
Drinan joined the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division side on loan from Ipswich Town ahead of the start of the 2019 season in February.
The 21-year-old striker made a significant impact at the RSC by scoring seven times, which leaves him in joint-second — alongside Dinny Corcoran of Bohemians and behind Dundalk’s Patrick Hoban — in the goalscoring charts at present.
Waterford were understandably keen to extend his loan, but Drinan has now been recalled by Ipswich, who are preparing for their first season in the third tier of English football for 62 years.
The Tractor Boys, who are currently under the management of former Celtic captain Paul Lambert, were relegated at the end of the 2018-19 campaign after finishing at the bottom of the Championship, 13 points adrift of safety.
Drinan first joined Ipswich from Waterford in January 2018, when current Republic of Ireland senior manager Mick McCarthy was in charge at Portman Road. He was previously on the books at hometown club Cork City.
The Ireland U21 international came off the bench for Stephen Kenny’s side in the 82nd minute of yesterday’s 2-0 defeat to Brazil in the semi-finals of the Toulon Tournament.
Drinan, who also had a spell on loan at English National League side Sutton United last season, should be confident of finally making his mark for Ipswich in League One, having yet to experience first-team action with the Suffolk outfit.
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Great game City keeper had a blinder!!! 1300 for an U19 game on a Wednesday night and there were 400 at Richmond Park for Pats v City on Monday…laughable
Be interesting to see what the attendance would have been if the Liverpool Man U game was on tonight instead of Monday.
True but even tonight City v Barcelona on tonight too
Very few irish ppl support Man City compared to Utd and Lpool. Just goes to show that irish ppl are event junkies. We love special occasions like these or going over to england to see a game, but when it comes to the average humdrum LOI fixture ppl are less enthusiastic.
City Barcelona is no comparison to Liverpool United for the Irish football fan
Are you saying there are more Irish fans supporting Man City and Barca than Man Utd and Liverpool??
U19 and U17 leagues were a fantastic idea well done cork
Great support. Well done Cork.
Is there a group stage or is it just a continous 2 leg knockout?? Btw fair play to cork
They play Roma in a 2 leg play-off and the winner goes to the group stage
Ah sound. Hope they get through
The winners of the next leg play the runners up of the Champions league groups, then the winners of that game play the winners of the champions league groups.
Well done Cork.
No Kenny Browne in sight Darren you’d have been delighted
Yes….. You have a lot of decent footballers there. No room for chubby checkers anywhere! Posh boy….you weren’t the lad on about goal difference between Dundalk and Cork defences were you yesterday? Less said about the MASSIVE +3 goals between teams the better.
@Darren Sheils: No it wasn’t me anyway haha
Great stuff from City.I’ll have to book the holiday to Rome.
That’s a tight net. Well done CCFC
Great support and an unbelievable result! Fair play Cork, they’ll continue to be a top side with this young talent coming through!