Weekly chats boost Irish AFL stars

It would once have seemed an unlikely friendship, given their prowess in different sports and their counties' neighbourly rivalry, but Cork's Setanta Ó hAilpín and Kerryman Tadhg Kennelly are now professional footballers and firm friends.

Two of Australian Rules' most popular players, the pair chat weekly on the telephone with Ó hAilpín describing Kennelly, who remains the only Irishman to have won an AFL Grand final, as "both a friend and a mentor."