Tadhg Kennelly
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Tadhg Kennelly is an Irish-Australian former international sportsperson turned recruiter and coach. He is most known for his top-level careers in both Gaelic football and Australian rules football bei
Kennelly coaching in July 2018
Irish experiment
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The Irish experiment is the popular term for the recruitment of Irish athletes, mainly Gaelic footballers, by VFL/AFL clubs to play Australian rules football professionally in Australia. The AFL's foc
Tadhg Kennelly
…represent Ireland against Australia in the International Rules Series. After Jim Stynes, he is the third-most-experienced player associated with the Irish experiment. Kennelly returned to his native Listowel to play in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC). On 20 September 2009, he started the…
A statue of Jim Stynes at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The first Irish-born player to win the prestigious Brownlow Medal, Stynes is among the most successful recruits from the Irish experiment.
Setanta Ó hAilpín went against the Gaelic Football trend and made a successful conversion from hurling.
Zach Tuohy holds the record for most AFL games by an Irishman with 288. He won an AFL premiership and represented Ireland 4 times.