MOST girls of her age would be playing games with their friends or practicing things they have learnt in school.

    But not 9-year-old Irish Jesse Jane McParland, who prefers playing with swords.

    Despite her young age, McParland is already a world champion kick boxer, with an astonishing 117 martial arts titles under her belt.

    Her first movie “Martial Arts Kid,” also starring Cynthia Rothrock and Don “The Dragon” Wilson, will be released this year, and in July she will start filming a film called “Awakening” with teen heartthrob Zac Efron.

    Now she is hoping to add a Britain’s Got Talent trophy to her collection after impressing the judges and audience with her incredible sword-wielding audition.

    You wouldn’t guess it coming from the slight, blonde-hair girl, who appeared on the BGT stage to a chorus of “ahs” from the audience Saturday night.

    She told the judging panel she was there with “my daddy” Gary, 36, — prompting more coos — because “my mummy’s at home looking after my two younger sisters.”

    Amanda Holden could be seen mouthing “sweet” at Alesha Dixon, who described her as a “dinky little thing.”

    But there was nothing sweet about the performance that followed, featuring armless cartwheels, back flips and, of course, the Irish schoolgirl’s incredible talents with her sword.

    McParland received a standing ovation and praise from all of the judges, including the notoriously hard-to-please Simon Cowell who joked he wanted her to become his bodyguard.

    And hundreds of the 8.19 million viewers who tuned in to watch BGT on Saturday night took to Twitter to share their surprise.

    McParland has been practicing martial arts since the age of 3, after deciding she wasn’t interested in the more traditional pastimes her mother wanted her to try such as ballet.(SD-Agencies)