Bohemians have made a double swoop for towering Galway United man Patrick Hickey and Derry City centre-back Sam Todd.<\/p>\n
Both players arrive at Dalymount Park on multi-year contracts.<\/p>\n
Chicago-born Hickey, 27, has been a key figure for Galway over the past two seasons, having started his League of Ireland career with an 18-month spell at Athlone Town.<\/p>\n
“Pat is a player I\u2019ve been keeping an eye on now for some time now going back to when he was in the First Division with Athlone,” said Bohs boss Alan Reynolds.<\/p>\n
“He will prove to be an excellent acquisition, we\u2019ve got a really good player on our hands.<\/p>\n
“He probably didn\u2019t get the credit he deserves for the performances he has put in with the ball at his feet for Galway this year, but it is something I think our fans will really take to.”<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Donegal man Todd, who has also lined out for Finn Harps, UCD and Larne, made 30 appearances in the Premier Division last season.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s a good age at 27, I feel he\u2019s coming into the prime of his career so we are looking forward to him playing his best football yet,” added Reynolds.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s big, he\u2019s strong, plays on the left side of defence, and I feel that he will fit in perfectly for what we are trying to build and achieve here.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, First Division side Kerry FC have announced that their all-time leading goalscorer Ryan Kelliher (32 goals in 81 games) has penned a new multi-year deal with the Kingdom ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bohemians have made a double swoop for towering Galway United man Patrick Hickey and Derry City centre-back Sam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-155015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}