Rory Stapleton has become the latest Laois player to seek a transfer away from his home club to an outfit in the capital.

Stapleton, a member of the Annanough club, is intent on completing a move to St Vincent's, according to a report in Tuesday's Evening Herald newspaper.

Should the transfer go through, he could become the sixth Laois senior player to move to a Dublin club within the past two years, following Parnells quartet Colm Parkinson, Darren Rooney, Colm Begley and MJ Tierney and Fingallians-bound Brendan Quigley to the capital.

An All-Ireland minor winner in 2003, Stapleton did not feature in the county's three games in the Leinster and All-Ireland championships last year and is currently recuperating from an ankle operation.

He told the newspaper, "[Annanough] understand my situation and they wish me the best. And they hope to see me return at some stage to tog out with them.

"Between college and teaching, I'm up here this past seven years. I'm within walking distance of Pairc Naomh Uinsionn. Another factor then would be that first cousins of my father played with Vincent's in the 1960s (including the late Simon Behan, an All-Ireland SFC winner with Dublin in 1963)." Tweet

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