Paul McVeigh is signing number two

Earlier in the day we signed Dubliner Graham Coughlan to take our number of players from the Republic to five and Belfast born McVeigh is our fourth Northern Ireland player, and like Michael Duff, Kyle Lafferty and Steve Jones has played for his country.

Paul McVeigh, who can play up front as well as wide, has played virtually all his career with Norwich City but started at Tottenham where he played three Premiership games against Aston Villa, Liverpool and Coventry towards the end of the 1996/97 season as a 19-year-old. He also bagged his first Premiership goal in the Coventry game although Spurs were beaten 2-1.

He failed to break into the Spurs side and in March 200 moved to Carrow Road, signed by then manager and former Northern Ireland international Bryan Hamilton. He's been with Norwich ever since and has featured in over 200 league games for them.

This season has seen him struggle to establish himself in the Norwich side and he hasn't started a game since they lost 3-1 at home against Plymouth in January. That has led to him looking for a loan move and to his signing for Burnley today.

His manager at Norwich Peter Grant said: "Paul has been terrific since I came here. The way he has approached the situation has been fantastic, he has been a 100% terrific pro, but within the structure of how the team is at this moment in time, he's not been playing many games and I don't want to hold back his career.

"It is important for him to get out and get some games under his belt with the end of the season coming rather quickly," Grant added.

Steve Cotterill said of his second capture of the day: "I am delighted to have signed Paul until the end of the season. He is different to what we have already got and he can play out wide or up front, so we get two options. He is clever with the ball and I am sure he will help us over the coming weeks."