Donegal star Amy Boyle Carr pens AFLW deal with the Adelaide Crows

Amy Boyle-Carr is the latest Donegal football star to pen an AFLW deal with the Naomh Conaill woman hooking up with the Adelaide Crows ahead of the 2024 season.  

Niamh McLaughlin (Gold Coast Suns), Tanya Kennedy (Sydney Swans) and Yvonne Bonner (Adelaide Crows) all played Aussie Rules Down Under this term. Bonner has now called it a day with the oval ball but the Crows have acted quickly to find another Donegal replacement.   

Boyle-Carr  is a three-time Ulster SFC winner and has also represented Ireland at senior International level when she was selected to play in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier against the Netherlands in 2018, aged only 17. 

Crows Head of Women’s Football Phil Harper said Boyle-Carr would join the team at the completion of her commitments with Donegal next year. 

“Amy is a dynamic athlete who is fast and agile, and has skills developed across two football codes that we think will translate well to AFLW,” Harper said.

“We were actually watching some vision of Yvonne Bonner ahead of the AFLW Supplementary Draft earlier this year and Amy kept catching our attention with her dashing runs. 

“We love what the Irish players bring to our game, and we’ve had great success with the likes of Yvonne, Niamh Kelly and Ailish Considine and recently Mark Keane in our men’s program as well. 

“We wanted to add some more speed and run to our squad and we think Amy has the physical attributes to play as a small forward, defender or even on the wing.

“We look forward to welcoming Amy and the Boyle-Carr family to our Club.”