THE IRISH EXODUS to the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) continues, with Tipperary’s Aisling McCarthy picked up in the 2018 Draft.
22-year-old McCarthy, the 2017 Intermediate Player of the Year, has joined the Western Bulldogs, having travelled to Australia in September as part of the Cross Coders programme which took place in Melbourne last month. A group of 18 athletes travelled over vying for coveted deals ahead of the Australian league’s third season.
It’s the early hours of the morning in Ireland, but @aish_mac is excited to be a Bulldog. 🍀 #AFLWdraft pic.twitter.com/siNh14d0vB
— WesternBulldogs AFLW (@BulldogsW) October 23, 2018
McCarthy last year helped Tipperary defeat Tyrone in the All-Ireland intermediate ladies football final, scoring 1-4 in a player-of-the-match display.
In March 2016, McCarthy captained her club Cahir to win the All-Ireland intermediate club camogie title in Croke Park.
Clare’s Ailish Considine and Donegal star forward Yvonne Bonner both penned rookie contracts off the back of the camp, signing for Adelaide and Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants respectively.
Bonner joins Cora Staunton at the Giants, with the 11-time All-Star preparing for a second stint down under.
Fellow Mayo native Sarah Rowe meanwhile has sealed a move to Collingwood ahead of the 2019 season.
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That’s a huge blow to United’s europa league hopes
Yeah focus on the negative about Jose instead of the match result and performance typical.
@Paul: yeah, not one positive adjective about United’s performance in the whole article.
Bizarre that Mourinho was booed by the Chelsea fans. I missed portions of the match so might be missing something…
@James Clancy: it’s Chelsea fans, what do you expect?!!
@James Clancy: United fans will boo him yet. It’s his scorched earth departures that cause it really.
@Brian Curtin: small club Chelsea
Chelsea are a skummy club for the way they taunted Mourinho like that.would not expect anything more from the Chelsea blues Brothers supporters club.
They should have let him go. I doubt he’d be able to punch his way out of a paper bag and could do with a good slap.
He was actually heading to the exit before the final whistle only the stewards made him stay till the end
that was a real ‘hold me back…please hold me back’ he’d have had his arse handed to him if he’d got near that guy
Good result for city
Great crack!