McKenna joins Kennelly in elite club as Lions win

Tyrone man Conor McKenna has go 1 of only 2 players who person been portion of teams who person won some All-Ireland Senior Football and Australian Football League premiership titles, emulating nan feat of Tadhg Kennelly.

McKenna joined nan elite nine erstwhile he was introduced arsenic a substitute during nan last 4th of Brisbane Lions' convincing 120-60 triumph complete Sydney Swans successful nan AFL Grand Final.

The Eglish man had antecedently been portion of nan Tyrone squad which collected nan All-Ireland title successful 2021.

The Lions proved overmuch excessively beardown for their opponents astatine nan Melbourne Cricket Ground successful beforehand of 100,000 fans.

McKenna's squad had mislaid to Collingwood successful past year's decider but made up for that disappointment by dominating against Sydney, who had Kennelly successful their ranks erstwhile they won nan 2005 AFL showpiece.

Kerry man Kennelly helped his autochthonal region triumph nan Sam Maguire Cup 4 years later.

Brisbane led 27-19 aft nan first 4th of this year's decider and extended their advantage to 73-27 by half-time.

They were 73 points successful beforehand by nan extremity of nan 3rd 4th earlier nan Swans reduced their shortage successful nan last 20 minutes.

Kai Lohman and Callum Ah Chee scored 4 goals each for nan victors while Luke Parker scored 3 for nan Swans.

A superb underage gaelic shot profession successful Tyrone led McKenna to beryllium snapped up by AFL nine Essendon successful precocious 2014.

He spent six seasons astatine nan Melbourne-based nine earlier returning location to thief Tyrone onshore nan 2021 All-Ireland crown, scoring 2 goals successful a melodramatic semi-final triumph complete Kerry earlier mounting up Darren McCurry's decisive awesome successful nan last against Mayo.

But aft Tyrone's disappointing defence of nan All-Ireland title successful 2022, McKenna opted to return Down Under and signed for Brisbane Lions.