{"id":661982,"date":"2026-10-22T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661982\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:44:11","slug":"kilkennys-joyce-to-depart-brisbane-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661982\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny&#8217;s Joyce to depart Brisbane Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kilkenny&#8217;s Darragh Joyce&#8217;s AFL future is up in the air as Premiership champions Brisbane Lions confirmed that they will not be offering him a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Rower\u2013Inistioge hurler joined St Kilda as a category B international rookie and played 13 AFL games for the Saints over six years.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce then joined the Lions through the AFL pre-season supplemental selection period ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old played five games in his first season and six the next as he became an important member of their defensive roster.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to make an AFL appearance in 2025, Joyce featured three times in 2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/other-sport\/2026\/0926\/1593040-mckenna-shines-to-helps-lions-to-afl-grand-final-glory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> as the Lions completed a remarkable AFL Grand Final turnaround against Freemantle<\/a>; Joyce failed to earn selection for that showpiece at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darragh&#8217;s experience, resilience, and willingness to put the team first have been greatly appreciated,&#8221; Lions general manager Danny Daly told the club website.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fellow Brisbane player Conor McKenna is believed to be close to agreeing a one-year extension with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood are expected to announce the signing of Donegal football star Finbarr Roarty in the coming days, with the Naomh Conaill player understood to be departing for Australia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/football\/2026\/1014\/1595349-huge-blow-for-donegal-as-roarty-signs-for-collingwood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 20-year-old has signed a two-year rookie contract.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilkenny&#8217;s Darragh Joyce&#8217;s AFL future is up in the air as Premiership champions Brisbane Lions confirmed that they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-661982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661982","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=661982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}