Aishling Moloney

Aishling Moloney, born on 28 January 1998, is an Irish footballer who has made her name in two codes. She comes from Cahir in County Tipperary and first played Gaelic football for the Tipperary ladies' team before the Geelong Football Club recruited her ahead of the 2023 season of the AFL Women's competition in Australia. Her move was delayed by work commitments and injury after the Brisbane Lions had earlier scouted her, and she suffered a knee injury in 2021 and a spider bite in 2022. In her debut season she won the 2023 AFL Players' Association Best First Year Player award. In 2024 she kicked 21 goals, tying with Brisbane's Taylor Smith for the AFL Women's leading goalkicker award, with a career-high six goals against West Coast in that season, and she was named in the forward line of the 2024 AFL Women's All-Australian team. She finished second in Geelong's best and fairest count and signed a contract extension to the end of the 2027 season. Between AFL Women's seasons she has returned to Ireland to play for Tipperary.