Midfielder Conor Hourihane is joining Plymouth on a free transfer, having been on trial with the Pilgrims for the last week. On Wednesday, the 20-year-old, who is signing a two-year deal, scored the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Truro City at Home Park.

The Republic of Ireland U21 international, who failed to make a senior appearance while at Portman Road, recently signed a six-month deal with the Blues, having followed former boss Roy Keane from Sunderland a year ago.

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BLUEBEAT added 19:53 - Jul 29 Roy Keane's future robot army scattered to the winds of change
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Juggsy added 19:55 - Jul 29 Are we on a purge of all Conor/Connor/O'Connor's from the club?
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IITFC1948 added 20:12 - Jul 29 Noticed on the team poster in the evening star no Shane O'connor
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WeirdFishes added 21:03 - Jul 29 shame, i thought he was gna be an ok player:) Good luck connor
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scunnyblue added 21:26 - Jul 29 Keep up the good work PJ. Keep clearing out the not upto the job and get in more please.
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Mark added 23:36 - Jul 29 Keane knew Hourihane from his Sunderland days, so why bring him to Ipswich in the first place if he wasn't good enough even to make one appearance? I believe we paid Sunderland compensation for him too. Keane spent nearly £11M on players (permanent signing transfer fees) and I reckon we'd be lucky to get £3M for the lot now.
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grecianblue added 23:43 - Jul 29 Feel sorry for the lad, hope he's not expecting to get paid is full wages in the near future!
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TractorBeezer added 01:49 - Jul 30 Good luck Conor. Hope that you do well.
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broomfield123 added 11:12 - Jul 30 He must enjoy working for free. Volontery work (yes my spelling is bad)
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jas0999 added 11:41 - Jul 30 Mark - no, your not correct. He was released by Sunderland.
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BotesdaleBlue added 12:04 - Jul 30 jas0999 - Are you sure about that? I was certain we paid a fee (undesclosed of course) for him. If so, it will be the first time I can ever remember having paid a fee for a permanent signing who never played for the first team.
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bluearmy78 added 15:21 - Jul 30 jas0999- You're wrong, he was offered a new deal at Sunderland but turned it down to join us!!
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fatboyakasha added 16:16 - Jul 30 Haha, BBC reported this, but selected a very strange photo of Conor. Pretty sure this isn't him. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14291587.stm
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Mark added 22:52 - Jul 30 The article I read at the time Ipswich signed Hourihane ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/i/ipswich_town/8831348.stm) stated "Sunderland could be due compensation for Hourihane, who can also play at left-back, as he is under 24 and was offered a new contract." I presume therefore that we agreed an amount of compensation with them as I didn't read of it going to a tribunal. Maybe it was wrapped up in the signing of Fulop shortly afterwards somehow.

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Garv added 12:08 - Jul 31 That picture looks like Waghorn to me
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