Dawson Devoy and Ross Tierney have returned to Bohemians with a view to finding happiness and success in League of Ireland.
They stand side by side at the table tennis table and smile.“Wha…”The two friends, Bohemians teammates once again, laugh.“First in for training and last home, that’s me,” Tierney replies.
Tierney, now 23, joined Scottish Premier League side Motherwell that December and Devoy, 22, headed to MK Dons when they were in England’s League One the following July.Both had another season remaining on their respective contracts and had options to stay in Britain. There were different factors at play – managerial changes, loan moves, injury, arguments, broken promises – for wanting to come home but one reason at the heart of their decision.
“People were telling me that I had to stay because of the opportunities that are over there, but in my head I was set on coming back. Once you know what’s right for yourself, you will do the right thing.” The first six months were about settling in. They sorted a house and when Leon, their eldest son who was born with an imperforate anus, got a place in a local nursery they really began to feel at home.
From left: Joe Redmond, Dawson Devoy, Will Smallbone, Jake O'Brien and Tyreik Wright on Ireland U21 duty. Ryan Byrne / INPHO Ryan Byrne / INPHO / INPHO“The most enjoyable period on the pitch but also the hardest off it,” Tierney says. “My daughter was two in the October and she just wasn’t used to me being around. I’d come home and she’d run away from me in the corner making strange. It was heartbreaking. My eldest boy was like the father of the house at four years of age. When your kids don’t recognise you properly when you try to hug them, that’s the hardest thing of all.”
“But she still wanted me to stay over there because she thought it was best for my career and the family. I don’t know how she does it, she puts everyone else first.”Liam Manning brought Devoy to MK Dons within a week of winger Darragh Burns joining from St Patrick’s Athletic .
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