Conor Gallagher is set to leave his boyhood club for a surprise move to Atletico Madrid. But the Surrey-born midfielder, 24, will unlikely be alone to start his new life in Spain - because he has a stunning long-term girlfriend. His Irish beau is called Aine May Kennedy, 27, and they co-own a dog together called Freddy, a Chow Chow with 1,300 Instagram followers of his own.
Aine - who once entered the Miss Universe Ireland pageant in 2017 - has 64,900 fans on the social media platform where her bio reads: “Be happy, share happiness.” The glamorous blonde is a model and talented Irish dancer from County Cork and her family own the Kades Kounty pub in the village of Glenville. Her father, Barry, spoke to the about how his daughter met the midfielder when they were just teenagers.
“She was going to college,” he said. “They were all in the one scene. He was in the Chelsea Academy.
They were all only 17 or 18 when they were going to the same places and met up.” He also joked about Gallagher being eligible to play for the Republic of Ireland with his family being from County Donegal - and asked about whether he thought he'd ever be the father of a WAG, he laughed: “I didn't, sure that's the way it goes.” Aine left her hometown for the bright lights of London with the ambition of being a dancer - only to sign up to the Pulse Model Agency before wowing in fashion shoots.
She eventually became a footie WAG and ended up living in a designer home in Chelsea and she has o.