O’Connor is now set to swap the navy and white for the red and white of Dingle

The Mayo woman played every game in her debut season earlier this year

Evergreen Cora Staunton's three goals put her second on the all-time AFLW scoring list

Fremantle have secured Meath footballer Orlagh Lally as a rookie

The 23-year-old joins Dublin star Sinead Goldrick in pulling on the red and blue later this year

O’Dwyer, from Killenaule in Tipperary, becomes the first ever Irish female recipient of the coveted All-Star award.

Melbourne head into their maiden AFLW Grand Final after a historic 33-29 win over the reigning Premiers, the Brisbane Lions.

40 players from all 14 AFLW teams have been selected

Adelaide Crows and Melbourne Demons both secured home preliminary finals 

Mayo’s Sarah Rowe starred for Pies but Adelaide Crows go to summit of AFLW ladder

St Kilda were up four points with only seconds remaining before Kat Smith won a free kick and converted the winning score

Adelaide Crows got back to winning ways with massive 40-point win over GWS Giants

The Western Bulldogs have created the biggest shock of the 2022 AFLW season so far, defeating the Premiership favourites Adelaide Crows by the narrowest of margins

The Clare woman got a crucial goal in the third quarter when the game was still for up grabs

While Leitrim’s Aine Tighe had another big performance for the Dockers

There were also goals for Cavan’s Aishling Sheridan and Leitrim’s Áine Tighe

From Belmullet to Ballaghdareen, the January gloom lifted upon Sunday night’s news that the pony-tailed Adonis of Kilmaine, Oisín Mullin, had rejected the sun-kissed, sleeveless life of the AFL in order to continue pushing the green and red boulder up the hill

Cora Staunton, Aisling McCarthy, Rachel Kearns and Aishling Sheridan were among the goals

Leaving a professional career behind was always going to be tough to do, especially with one year left on the contract at Olympic Park Oval

Stack fractured a bone in her neck in her first practice match in Australia is set for her competitive debut on Sunday

Melbourne-based Keane returned home to Ireland in recent weeks for the Christmas holidays, falling back in with the team he helped to Cork junior hurling glory in November

It can be hard to identify change in real-time but in 2021, you could almost feel the tectonic plates of progress moving under your feet

Tipperary's West Coast Eagles star Aisling McCarthy is busy preparing for her fourth season Down Under and was recently named in the side’s leadership group

Our first practice game is on December 18 against — yeah, you guessed it — the Adelaide Crows, on the same pitch I broke my neck. You couldn’t write the script

The 21-year-old Kilmaine player will join up with fellow Irishmen Zach Tuohy and Mark O’Connor at Kardinia Park

Online abuse of sports people and athletes is a problem in Ireland too, though Glass feels it’s worse in Australia

Mullin joins recent AFLW recruit Rachel Kearns, also from Mayo, Kerryman Mark O’Connor, and former Laois footballer Zach Tuohy at Geelong

With such a connection now between ladies Gaelic football and the AFLW, the time could be ripe again in the near future for a much more competitive ladies' International Rules Series. And maybe some more bizarre TV viewing

Having mulled over her future in the new sport, she eventually accepted the Giants’ offer of another contract for the upcoming campaign

Kelm had been due to travel to Australia to undergo further trials in April of last year, along with Mayo duo Oisín Mullin and Frank Irwin, and Clare’s Cillian Rouine.

Magee will miss the beginning of the 2022 campaign as she confirmed she is returning to Australia next month for a second AFLW season with Melbourne

Na Gaeil man  Okunbor has left the Geelong Cats following three years as a rookie and has returned to Ireland.

Injuries meant O’Riordan, who won a Munster SFC medal with his native county last year, was restricted to five appearances for the Swans this season

Anton Tohill arrived at the Magpies in 2018 and developed his craft in the VFL reserve league

A number of AFL clubs are understood to be extremely keen to sign Mullin up for the 2022 season and contracts are to be offered later in the year

Bríd Stack’s dream move to the Greater Western Sydney Giants quickly turned into a nightmare after she sustained a neck fracture in a pre-season game last January. Despite being within millimetres of paralysis, Stack’s desire to play professionally remains as powerful as ever — and it is why she plans to return to Australia next month

Reduced opportunities to impress could impact on a player’s ability to earn a new deal, writes Maurice Brosnan in Melbourne

The Mayo ladies footballer had been starring with Galway WFC in the Women's National League this season

An emotional Tohill was congratulated by fellow Collingwood player Mark Keane 

O’Dwyer finished with 3-3 on her first start in national competition since returning from Australia as an AFLW champion

McCarthy is among a dozen Irish recruits set for a return to Australia next season

Four more Irish players have committed to return Down Under next season

Being in peak physical condition and even wearing helmets hasn’t helped NFL players; lessons that we in the GAA should take to heart

Watching sport all day is the armchair warrior’s dream. Last Saturday, that dream became a reality for Maurice Brosnan