{"id":239915,"date":"2026-01-11T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239915\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:22:07","slug":"brady-completes-switch-to-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239915\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady completes switch to Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Palace have snapped up Athlone Town striker Kelly Brady on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old joins the English Women&#8217;s Super League 2 side on an 18-month deal.<\/p>\n<p>Brady bagged 26 goals for the midlanders in all competitions last year as they won a Premier Division and FAI Cup double.<\/p>\n<p>She won both the SSE Airtricity Women&#8217;s Premier Division Golden Boot Award and the Player of the Year Award, drawing big interest from clubs abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Carla Ward called Brady up to the Republic of Ireland squad last November, where she joined Palace team-mates Abbie Larkin, Hayley Nolan, and Ruesha Littlejohn in the matchday squad for the fixture against Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Brady could make her debut for Sheffield United on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Palace boss Jo Potter said: &#8220;Kelly is an exciting young talent, and we are very happy to have her here at Palace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s coming off a great season, and her goalscoring ability is going to be a huge asset for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brady described the move as &#8216;surreal&#8217;: &#8220;It feels surreal to be here, I can&#8217;t wait to be involved in the great things the girls have been doing this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace have snapped up Athlone Town striker Kelly Brady on a free transfer. The 23-year-old joins the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-239915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}