Bush or Kerry? Kennelly scales heights home and away

Practice makes perfect for the Kerryman who has blazed a trail to Australia for up and coming GAA stars. Tadhg Kennelly spoke with Colm O’Connor.

THE tan is permanent. So too is the smile. Welcome to Tadhg Kennelly’s professional world.

There he was, a fresh-faced teenager off a plane not just onto a different continent but into a different world. Five years on, he is amongst the ruling classes of his new habitat, the Sydney Swans, and indeed the wider confines of the AFL.