Jack Byrne leaves APOEL Nicosia having played just five times for Cypriots

Jack Byrne is looking for a new club. Picture: INPHO/ Marios Gregoriou

Jack Byrne’s torturous spell in Cyprus has been cut short after just five games and nine months into his two-and-a-half year contract at APOEL Nicosia.

The reigning PFAI Player of the Year and Soccer Writers Ireland Personality of the Year spurned a contract extension offer from Shamrock Rovers last January to reunite with Mick McCarthy, the man who handed him his first two Ireland caps in 2019.