No early Swans-song for Kennelly, insist Sydney

SYDNEY SWANS officials have given short shrift to claims that Tadhg Kennelly is set to walk out on the AFL club and return to Kerry in the short term.

Sydney football operations manager Andrew Ireland said yesterday Kennelly was committed to playing out the final year of his contract — despite claims in the Kingdom that he was to return “within weeks”.

“He’s here. He signed a three-year contract a while ago and indicated this would be his last year,” he said.