{"id":224316,"date":"2026-01-03T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224316\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:14:07","slug":"dundalk-sign-ex-derry-striker-mullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224316\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundalk sign ex-Derry striker Mullen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dundalk have strengthened their squad ahead of their return to the SSE Airtricity Men&#8217;s Premier Division with the addition of Scottish striker Danny Mullen.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old scored 21 goals in 86 appearances during two-and-a-half seasons at Derry City before leaving the Candystripes at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Mullen&#8217;s switch to Dundalk adds further experience to their squad after the Louth club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0102\/1551182-loi-transfers-kearns-departs-shels-for-dundalk-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced the signing of goalkeeper Conor Kearns on a season-long loan deal from Shelbourne on New Year&#8217;s Day<\/a>, while former Bohemians captain Keith Buckley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1202\/1546836-loi-transfers-buckley-makes-move-to-dundalk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrival at Oriel Park was confirmed last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Danny is a huge addition to our group. I think his record and CV speaks for itself. We&#8217;re delighted to have him,&#8221; said Lilywhites manager Ciar\u00e1n Kilduff.<\/p>\n<p>Having been promoted as First Division champions last season following relegation in 2024, Dundalk&#8217;s first league game back in the top flight will be away at reigning champions Shamrock Rovers on Friday, 6 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundalk have strengthened their squad ahead of their return to the SSE Airtricity Men&#8217;s Premier Division with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-224316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224316","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=224316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}