Aishling Moloney and Aisling McCarthy ‘were like twins’ for the Cahir ladies football club.
Aishling Moloney and Aisling McCarthy face off routinely in Australia in the AFLW these days, but there was a rare showdown back home a few years back.
Hawthorn pair Aileen Gilroy and Áine McDonagh, from Mayo and Galway respectively, have also been included in the selection of 42 players. Shinnick casts his mind back to his earliest memories of the duo. The long-time coach remembers them as “well able for the boys” at a young age, before blossoming through the underage ranks with the Cahir girls teams.
“Aishling would be a star in her own way. The same with Aisling McCarthy. She was a performer, a strong player in our club. Her ability was outstanding. She worked from one end of the field to the other. And Moloney, as we’d know her, she could come out of anywhere with the ball, and she was a brilliant player in the backs or the forwards. In later years, she has come on to be a tremendous forward.
The Cahir Camogie team celebrate their 2016 All-Ireland intermediate club title. Moloney and McCarthy are both central in the picture. Lorraine O'Sullivan / INPHO Lorraine O'Sullivan / INPHO / INPHO He recalls a mock wedding in 2019, for which Moloney was the bride and her father, Martin, dressed up as Santa and offered live turkeys as a wedding present. He talks about McCarthy helping to start ladies football in Rockwell College and being Cahir LGFA’s first captain.
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