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Without a first-team appearance since a loan spell at Notts County almost two years ago, the big Dubliner realized he had to leave City in order to further his career.
The 21-year-old agreed a three-year deal at the Walkers Stadium on Wednesday evening in a move that will cost the Championship side in the region of £100,000.
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McCarthy has been a key player in Don Givens’s Irish under-21 regime over the past year, graduating to that squad after impressive performances for the Irish under-19 side and for Gerry Smith’s under-20 team that reached the second round of the World Youth Championships in 2003.
But his promising displays at international level were not enough to see him force his way into the City side.
Two years after he made 18 league appearances in loan spells at Boston United and Notts County, he was still awaiting a first-team debut at the Premiership outfit, and his patience, it seems, finally wore out.
He can expect to make his Foxes debut in the weekend’s midlands derby clash with struggling Nottingham Forest at the Walkers Stadium