Paddy McCourt in shock departure from Glenavon: contract terminated 'by mutual consent'

Former Derry City favourite Paddy McCourt has parted company with Irish League Premiership side Glenavon.

Manager Gary Hamilton announced this evening that he and McCourt, dubbed the “Derry Pele,” had come to a “mutual agreement” to terminate his contract with “immediate effect.”

The 33-year-old (pictured) joined the Mourneview Park club in July after being released from his two-year contract a year early in May this year to enable him to return to Derry after his wife, Laura, underwent a successful operation to have a benign brain tumour removed.

He scored one goal in 12 appearances for the Lurgan club.