TWO ULSTER INTER-county players have completed transfers to Dublin GAA clubs.
Armaghโs Kevin Dyas has moved to southside club Kilmacud Crokes from his native Dromintee.
While Fermanaghโs Tomas Corrigan has switched to the Navan Road-based club St Oliver Plunkettโs Eoghan Ruadh from his home club in the Erne County, Kinawley.
Both transfers had been mooted for some time and were rubber stamped in recent days.
The duo are both big additions to their respective clubs, having featured on the inter-county stage last summer. Dyas did find his 2015 season restricted by a broken finger and two separate knee injuries.
He will link up with a Kilmacud Crokes side that lost out in the second round of the Dublin SFC last year to eventual winners Ballyboden St-Endaโs.
Current Dublin seniors Cian OโSullivan, Paul Mannion and Eoin Culligan will be amongst his teammates but it was confirmed recently that Allstar defender Rory OโCarroll is moving to New Zealand.
Dyas is not the only player from outside of Dublin in the Kilmacud ranks with Longfordโs Brian Kavanagh, Roscommonโs Donal Ward and Cavanโs Eugene Keating also involved. Kilmacud native Pat Burke lined out for Clare in the 2015 championship under the parentage rule.
Kilmacud Crokes last reached the Dublin senior final in 2012 where they lost to Ballymun Kickhams and their most recent title win was in 2010.
Corrigan was a key attacker in the Fermanagh team that reached the All-Ireland quarter-final stage, hitting 1-2 in that loss to Dublin and 1-7 in the previous round win over Westmeath in the qualifiers. Yesterday he shot 0-3 as Fermanagh saw off Down in the Dr McKenna Cup.
He joins a St Oliver Plunkettโs-Eoghan Ruadh setup that features the Brogan brothers, Alan and Bernard, along with former Dublin seniors Ross McConnell and Declan Lally.
Youngster Niall Walsh has also seen action for Dublin in the OโByrne Cup this year, while Armaghโs Ciaran McKeever also lined out for the club last season.
St Oliver Plunkettโs have never lifted a Dublin senior football crown but have come extremely close in recent years as they lost the 2008 and 2011 finals by two-point margins, and the 2014 decider by a point.
They were also defeated by Ballyboden St-Endaโs in the 2015 Dublin senior football championship, bowing out at the quarter-final stage.
Does Niall Scully not play with Templeogue Synge Street?
He does indeed. Niall Walsh was the player I meant to refer to.
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Kilmacud won a dublin championship in 2010