O'Riordan aims to stay

Galway United manager Don O'Riordan hopes to end speculation regarding his future at Terryland Park within the next week.

The Dubliner, who has been linked with St Patrick's Athletic and, this week, Exeter City, says that he is having talks with the National League club and "hopefully we can hammer out something over the next seven days which would involve me committing myself to Galway for the next two or three years".

O'Riordan, who brings United back to Richmond Park this evening, has made no secret of his desire to return at some point to England where his family are still based and, when contacted by the local media in Britain about the Exeter job earlier this week, admitted that "if they were interested in me, I'd certainly be interested in talking to them." That job has since gone to former assistant boss Noel Blake and O'Riordan now says that he wants to resolve his future so that the long term planning required at Terryland can get under way.

"There's constant talk down here that I'm one place or another and what I want to do now is to kill off the speculation. I want to do it for myself and for the players at the club. I think that if they knew what my position was it would be easier for them to sort out their own.

"I feel that avoiding the drop now would give us something great to build on. We would have to add to the squad but I don't think that would be a problem."