Laois’s Erone Fitzpatrick has been named on the 25-player Irish squad for August’s AFLW representative match against Australia in Sydney.<\/p>\n
The Carlton club player easily met the qualifying criteria of playing an AFLW game.<\/p>\n
The entire squad will take to the field during the game, with a structure of 16 on the park, and an extended interchange bench of nine (up from five in regular matches).<\/p>\n
The squad contains a host of star names like Mayo\u2019s Sarah Rowe and Dayna Finn, Meath\u2019s Vikki Wall and Dublin\u2019s Sinead Goldrick.<\/p>\n
Blaithin Bogue (North Melbourne, Fermanagh)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amy Boyle-Carr (Adelaide, Donegal)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kayleigh Cronin (Adelaide, Kerry)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neasa Dooley (Brisbane, Kildare)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jen Dunne (Brisbane, Dublin)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dayna Finn (Carlton, Mayo)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Erone Fitzpatrick (Carlton, Laois)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amy Gavin Mangan (North Melbourne, Offaly)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sinead Goldrick (Melbourne, Dublin)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rachel Kearns (Geelong, Mayo)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grace Kelly (Adelaide, Mayo)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Niamh Kelly (Adelaide, Mayo)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tanya Kennedy (Sydney, Donegal)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orlagh Lally (Fremantle, Meath)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Niamh Martin (Hawthorn, Tipperary)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aisling McCarthy (Fremantle, Tipperary)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paris McCarthy (Sydney, Kerry)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aine McDonagh (Hawthorn, Galway)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Niamh McLaughlin (Gold Coast, Donegal)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aishling Moloney (Geelong, Tipperary)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eilish O’Dowd (GWS, Leitrim)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orla O’Dwyer (Brisbane, Tipperary)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Erika O’Shea (North Melbourne, Cork)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah Rowe (Collingwood, Mayo)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vikki Wall (North Melbourne, Meath)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coach: Colin O’Riordan (Sydney)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assistants: Craig Starcevich (Brisbane), Tadhg Kennelly (GWS academy, Irish Sydney premiership player), \u00c1ine Tighe (Irish Fremantle player), Elise Coventry (Geelong assistant)<\/p>\n
Chair of selectors: Cora Staunton (retired Irish GWS great)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Football operations: Jess Burger (Collingwood head of AFLW)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laois’s Erone Fitzpatrick has been named on the 25-player Irish squad for August’s AFLW representative match against Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-514419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514419","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=514419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}