Kerry's Aoife Dillane carries grandmother's memory into All-Ireland final

Kerry play Galway in Sunday's All-Ireland senior ladies football championship final.

Aoife Dillane started wearing a green hair bobble to help her grandmother Dolores Curtin identify her on the pitch. Dillane still wears it in memory of Delores who died following Kerry's 2024 All-Ireland victory. Pic: ©INPHO/Leah Scholes

Wearing her distinctive green hair bobble makes Kerry’s Aoife Dillane stand out on the football field. However, for the flying wing-back, this certainly isn’t a fashion statement, or anything of the sort. It has a much deeper meaning to the 24-year-old.

There is a tattoo on the Austin Stacks player’s upper arm. This isn’t for decorative purposes either. It simply reads ‘Love Lolie.’ Lolie is Dolores Curtin, Aoife’s grandmother. Her biggest supporter. The woman who inspired the hair bobble, and the ink on the skin.