Photo: Gaelicplayers.com The 2015 All-Star bash is currently underway and this year’s All-Star football team was announced a short time ago. For a change, there wasn’t a single surprise in this year’s awards and, as expected, we’ve got two players on the team – Lee Keegan at wing-back and Aidan O’Shea at full-forward. It’s Lee’s third All-Star award, cementing his […]
Photo: GAA Time for some light relief, I reckon. The list of nominees – 45 in all – for this year’s GAA/GPA Football All-Stars was released overnight and we’ve seven players on the list. Chris Barrett, Keith Higgins, Lee Keegan, Tom Parsons, Diarmuid O’Connor, Aidan O’Shea and Cillian O’Connor all make this year’s shortlist. In addition, Diarmuid has, as expected, […]
Photo: alan_dillon via Twitter I know we may have argued the toss over who should have won what and that some have also raised questions about whether or not the awards mean anything in practice but the above photo of our five winners from last night’s All-Stars is still unquestionably one to raise the spirits on a cold, dark October […]
Tonight was All-Star award night up here at the National Convention Centre and with Keith, Ger, Lee and Alan collecting their gongs it was always going to be a good night for the county. It was made even better, though, with the announcement that Cillian O’Connor was, for the second year running, named the Young Footballer of the Year. Ed […]
The GPA football team of the year for 2010 has just been announced. While this line-up goes some way towards rectifying the stupidities on this year’s All-Star selection (notably by picking Daniel Goulding instead of Colm Cooper) it is a team that comprises five players from beaten All-Ireland finalists Down while only three of Cork’s victorious side make the cut. […]
Seeing as it’s the players who make the final choice (albeit from a shortlist put together on their behalf by a junta of GAA worthies), the GPA’s Team of the Year is usually a more even-headed assessment of who the stand-out performers are in Gaelic football and hurling in any given year than is its journo-based equivalent, the All-Stars. Not […]
The nominees for the GPA’s Football Team of the Year were announced yesterday afternoon and we’ve got three players – Peadar Gardiner, Ronan McGarrity and Aidan O’Shea – on the list. While the final decision on who gets onto the GPA’s team is made by GPA members themselves, the shortlist was drawn up by a troika comprising Martin McHugh (no […]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s surprise announcement that Tom Parsons had been named in the Irish squad for the International Rules series in Australia comes an even bigger surprise today with the news that Alan Dillon has been included in the GPA’s Team of the Year shortlist (which isn’t actually all that short – there are three nominees for […]