Paul Ahern (born 1 August 1996) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the

Greater Western Sydney Giants The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS or Giants) are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney Olympic Park which repres ...

and the

North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or colloquially the Roos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AF ...

in the

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(AFL). He was originally drafted by the

with their third selection and seventh overall in the 2014 national draft. After failing to play a senior match in his two seasons with the Giants due to a number of injuries including two knee reconstructions, he was traded to North Melbourne during the 2016 trade period. He made his debut in the fifty-four point win against Brisbane in round eleven of the 2018 season, one year after being traded to North Melbourne. Ahern was delisted by at the end of the

2020 AFL season The 2020 AFL season was the 124th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featur ...

after a mass delisting by which saw 11 players cut from the team's list. As of May 2024, Ahern is playing for Pascoe Vale in the EDFL (Essendon District Football League)

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* * 1996 births Living people North Melbourne Football Club players Calder Cannons players Northern Bullants players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 21st-century Indigenous Australian people 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub