Meath ladies captain Aoibhín Cleary has signed a two-year deal with AFLW club Richmond.

The two-time All Star winner helped her county to back-to-back All-Ireland senior triumphs in 2021 and 2022 and was appointed as the team’s skipper by manager Shane McCormack this season.

Cleary made her debut for the Royal County back in 2016 when she was 16 years old and now follows fellow Meath women Vikki Wall and Orlagh Lally into the AFLW.

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Richmond AFLW Recruiting Manager Trent Mosbey said: “We are delighted to be able to give Aoibhín an AFLW opportunity for the next two seasons. The strengths in her game will translate well to AFLW- such as her speed, endurance, agility, running patterns and high-end work rate.

“We have been impressed by Aoibhín’s capacity to transition up and back the field. Aoibhin has also demonstrated an overhead marking ability and clean hands, her kicking skills on both feet also really caught our eye.

“She has the ability to defend, apply pressure, to win one-on-ones and has illustrated competitiveness, aggression and physicality which has been impressive to see.”

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