Roy O'Donovan has moved to Hartlepool United on loan from Sunderland - and the striker is expected to make his debut this evening.

Pools face Carlisle at Victoria Park and the Irishman should start after signing a deal until the end of the season.

O'Donovan has been training with Pools for the last week and, with no chance of a first-team spot at the Stadium of Light under Steve Bruce, has moved to Victoria Park for regular football.

Signed by Roy Keane in 2007, O'Donovan takes Pools' Irish contingent to five.

He played at Cork alongside new Pools team-mates Denis Behan, Joe Gamble and Leon McSweeney.