Shelbourne captain Mark Coyle has joined NIFL Premiership side Coleraine on a two-and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n
Coyle, who joined Shelbourne from Finn Harps at the end of 2021, went on to lead the side to the League of Ireland Premier Division title in 2024.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old midfielder arrives at the The Bannsiders with Ruaidhr\u00ed Higgins charges occupying second spot in the table.<\/p>\n
On the acquisition, Higgins told the Coleraine website: “We are delighted because Mark will bring so much to the group.<\/p>\n
“He brings quality and a know-how but it’s also about day-to-day behaviour and habits in terms of how he trains and conducts himself.<\/p>\n
“He will help to build a culture here that eventually turns us into winners, so to bring Mark with that experience and quality is huge for us.<\/p>\n
“He’s in his prime years for a midfielder. He’ll bring a real drive, a real hunger and quality to the group.”<\/p>\n
Bohemians have brought in Republic of Ireland Under-21 attacking midfielder Harry Vaughan on loan from Hull City until the end of June.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old, who began his career with Oldham, has racked up over 60 league appearances in England in the Championship, League One and League Two.<\/p>\n
Born in Trafford, England, Vaughan qualifies for Ireland through his maternal grandparents who hail from Kerry and Galway.<\/p>\n
“Harry is a real attacking player who can play anywhere in the attacking areas, as an attacking midfielder and also out wide,” said Bohs boss Alan Reynolds.<\/p>\n
“He has a lot of experience for a young player. He has played at a really high level in England including in the Championship and has obviously played at international level for the Ireland Under-21s.<\/p>\n
“He’s an exciting talent. He is a clever, hungry footballer who wants to do well. I know him from my time with the Ireland U21s and I think he is a player who will excite our fans and really do well for us.”<\/p>\n
Vaughan added: “I spoke to Rennie and he really sold the club to me, so it was a no-brainer for me.<\/p>\n
“He sold me the style of play, told me the type of technical players Bohs have and told me how good a dressing room there is at the club so I\u2019m really looking forward to getting started.<\/p>\n
“I know ‘Rennie’ from my time in Ireland U21 camps and I really enjoyed his coaching style so I am really looking forward to working with him again.<\/p>\n
“I spoke to Cathal McCarthy, my team-mate at Hull who was with UCD, and he was telling me what a big occasion the first game of the season at the Aviva (against St Patrick’s Athletic) is going to be so I am really looking forward to that and I want to be part of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shelbourne captain Mark Coyle has joined NIFL Premiership side Coleraine on a two-and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-234561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234561","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=234561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}