\n The Lions are set to add Irishwoman Caitlin Kennedy to their list\n <\/p>\n
Sisters Caitlin and Anna-Rose Kennedy. Picture: @thepremierviewtip TikTok<\/p>\n
BRISBANE is set to announce the signing of Irishwoman Caitlin Kennedy as an other sport rookie.<\/p>\n
Kennedy, hailing from Tipperary, is the younger sister of former Geelong rebounding defender Anna-Rose, who retired from the game this off-season after spending the year on the inactive list.<\/p>\n
A former high jumper, she is a powerful athlete with the capacity to play anywhere on the ground and stands at 178cm. In Gaelic football she is a midfielder but will find her feet and establish a preferred position once arriving in Australia in the new year.<\/p>\n
She will be the fourth Irish player on Brisbane’s list for the season, alongside All-Australian key defender Jennifer Dunne, hard-running winger Orla O’Dwyer, and dynamic small forward Neasa Dooley, to hit the League with a bang.<\/p>\n
Orla O’Dwyer celebrates a goal during round 12, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Although many Irish recruits don’t arrive in Australia until their Gaelic championship season finishes \u2013 as late as mid-August \u2013 Kenney is expected to make the move before the AFLW pre-season officially begins in May.<\/p>\n
Her physicality has been compared to that of Vikki Wall and Dunne, but she is known for taking the game on and being involved repeatedly in passages of play.<\/p>\n
Kennedy joins former Pie Lily-Rose Williamson, and draftees Asher Fearn-Wannan, Marlo Graham, Olivia Lacy, and Meg Lappin in arriving at Brisbane throughout the player movement period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions are set to add Irishwoman Caitlin Kennedy to their list Sisters Caitlin and Anna-Rose Kennedy. Picture:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-351976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}