AFL Invasion

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Some ofthoe fellas you've named near the bottom only went for trials and came home

OK, wasn't 100% sure, which ones?

[youbetterbelieveit]

Colm Begley (Laois) - Still there with St. Kilda (former Brisbane Lion)
Conor Meredith (Laois) - New this year with Kangaroos
Zac Tuohy (Laois) - trail ?, but gone home
Pearce Hanley (Mayo) - Still there with Brisbane Lions
Nicholas Walsh (Cavan, injured) - Home long time, was with Melbourne Demons
Setanta O'hAilpin (Cork) - Still there with Carlton
Aisake O'hAilpin (Cork) - Got dropped from Carlton, no club at present
Martin Clarke (Down) - Still there with Collingwood
Kevin Dyas (Armagh) - Still there with Collingwood
Tadhg Kennelly (Kerry) - Still there with Sydney Swans
Brendan Murphy (Carlow) - Still there with Sydney Swans
Kyle Coney (Tyrone) - New this year with Sydney Swans
Brian Donnelly (Louth) - New this year with Adelaide Crows
Michael Quinn (Longford) New this year with Essendon
Christopher Mc Kaigue (Derry) - trail, but gone home
James Kielt (Derry) - trail, but gone home
Niall McKeever (Antrim) - trail, but gone home
Michael Sheilds (Cork) - Got homesick and left Carlton

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Sláinte ybbi.

I would still count Nicholas Walsh, however, since he was lost to Gaelic Games by the AFL, and could conceivably still be playing football for Cavan were it not for the AFL.

[AFS]

Fear, I think you've just proven this point that I made a couple of weeks back.

I thought it was more than 11   

There seems to be a lot of talk about a lot of players but then they never actually head - guys like Walsh, Moran, Kielt, McComiskey. Maybe all this speculation tricks a lot of people into thinking the problem is greater than it actually is.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

True AFS, but it's still some of the very best players the association has, and for that it can only be the worse off, and by much more than just the raw number of individuals involved.

And, I prefer to look at it as 1 in every 3 counties has lost a top player 

[thejuice]

Tuohy joins exodus

CARLTON HAVE swooped again to attract one of the the brightest GAA talents, signing Laois's Zach Tuohy on a two-year contract.

The versatile Portlaoise clubman will join Ciarán Sheehan from Cork at a four-week training camp with the Melbourne-based outfit in the middle of July as the club aims to fast-track the duo's Aussie Rules education ahead of pre-season training in November.

The 20-year-old Tuohy is the fourth Laois player to have taken the plunge in Australia, with Colm Begley, Brendan Quigley and Conor Meredith the others, though Quigley has since returned.

[BallyhaiseMan]

Re Nicholas Walsh, He is still playing for Cavan, was injured last year,but came on in the qualifiers against Kildare and made a big difference at Midfield
I believe(and i might be corrected) that Nicko's problem when he was over with Melbourne was that he packed on too much muscle with all the gym work too quickly, and as a result when the hard running/conditioning aspect of training took centre stage, He got injuries as his legs werent fit to take the increased weight.
Hes still a beast of a man.

[laoislad]

https://twitter.com/fotoole13/status/1573571339516010496?s=46&t=4Up3jZkmVOuvKB2mxNEz7w

[Helix.]

https://twitter.com/fotoole13/status/1573571339516010496?s=46&t=4Up3jZkmVOuvKB2mxNEz7w

Great to see a few more Irish winners. Swans were awful one way traffic all the way through.

[Blowitupref]

[laoislad]

[AustinPowers]

Tommy Walsh only  played 5 games in Australia??

Whatever happened to the o hailpin 's?  Are  they back in Ireland or what?

[tonto1888]

Class

[Cyril Farrell fan]

Clubs referring to themselves as "the town". How unimaginative is that?

[The Boy Wonder]

Clubs referring to themselves as "the town". How unimaginative is that?

Nothing to do with imagination - it's tradition.
C'mon the Town has been the catchcry of Zach's home club, Portlaoise, for decades (as indeed it has been for other towns, e.g. Athlone Town FC in soccer).

Congratulation to Zach - he did his town proud.