 McGinty stepped back up to senior football when Tom Hendrie signed him for St Mirren in November 2001.In spite of injury problems which included a Bell's palsy affliction in 2002–03, he appeared 137 times in all competitions for the Paisley side before his contract was cancelled by mutual consent in April 2007.McGinty dropped back to the Junior grade with Irvine Meadow in the summer of 2007.