Career
He has also played for Street Patrick"s Athletic,, Carlisle United, Oxford United, Motherwell, Southend United and Darlington. Ireland Born in Dublin, Foran started his career in Ireland with Street Patrick"s Athletic but failed to make a first team appearance, before signing for fellow League of Ireland club in 2000. Also during his debut season with, he scored home and away against Rosenborg in the second qualifying round of the Union of European Football Associations Champions League, and made his debut for the Republic of Ireland under-21 international team in Cyprus.
Carlisle In 2001, manager Roddy Collins spent £120,000 to secure Foran"s signature for Carlisle United, in England.
While at Brunton Park he scored twenty-nine goals, with sixteen of them coming in the 2001–2002 season, helping Carlisle to a respectable mid-table finish – despite the club"s recent history of battling to stay in The Football League. Over the next two seasons, Carlisle struggled and Foran found it difficult to score goals.
He had a short loan spell at Oxford United during the 2003–2004 season, but at the end of the campaign, Carlisle United were relegated. During his time at Carlisle, he had a highly publicised "fight" in the tunnel with Huddersfield Town"s Steve Yates after a series of fouls committed by Foran in the first-half.
Both were sent-off, Yates lost a front tooth and Foran picked up a five-match ban.
Motherwell Foran moved to Scottish Premier League outfit Motherwell on a free transfer in 2004, where he scored twenty-three league goals in ninety matches. He also played in the 2005 Scottish League Cup Final against Rangers, but Motherwell lost the match 5–1. Southend On 31 January 2007 he completed a £200,000 transfer to Southend United.
His career at Southend started with an assist for Freddy Eastwood against Stoke City, after coming on as a substitute.
He then had a man-of-the-match performance playing against Crystal Palace. However, his early, impressive start was somewhat tarnished when he was sent-off for a second bookable offence during a game against Leicester City.
His only other goal for the club came in a Football League Trophy tie against Dagenham & Redbridge. Nevertheless, he made a second loan-move to Darlington in October 2008 following an injury to their striker Liam Hatch.
He did not play for Southend during the 2008-2009 season and his contract was terminated in January 2009.
Inverness Soon afterwards he joined on a deal until the end of the season, making him their first signing under manager Terry Butcher. Following Inverness" relegation to Division 1 in 2010, Foran became the club captain. He was involved in most of the games during the club"s promotion back to the Scottish Premier League.
In January 2012, he signed a new-deal to keep him at the club until 2014.
On 12 September 2013, Foran was awarded the SPFL Player of the Month for August. Due to a complicated knee injury, he missed the latter part of the 2013-2014 season and the entire 2014-2015 campaign.
Foran made three substitute appearances in the 2015-2016 season before he suffered a calf muscle tear in February 2016.