Kennelly ‘willing to burst a gut to get on the Irish team’

TADHG KENNELLY, one of Ireland’s greatest AFL converts, has angrily rejected suggestions he plans to represent Australia in the International Rules Series.

The 23-year-old who represented Kerry at minor and U21 level admitted to being upset by reports that he would turn his back on Ireland for the October tour.

“I don’t know where this story came from,” the Sydney Swans player said yesterday. “I have had a couple of calls and text messages and I am angry that people are saying or writing these things. It will never happy in a million years.