WITH the dust settling on another record-breaking
season of Ladies Football Championship action, the 45 nominees for the 2019 TG4
All Star team have been revealed.
Senior champions Dublin, who made history by
claiming a third successive title in front of a record 56,114 attendance at
Croke Park, lead the way with 13 nominations.
There are nine nominations each for Galway, the 2019
TG4 All-Ireland Finalists, and Mayo, who were beaten by their Connacht rivals
in the provincial Final replay and at the All-Ireland semi-final stage.
Munster Champions Cork, who lost out to Dublin in
the All-Ireland semi-final, have been acknowledged with seven All-Star
nominations following a season that also saw the Leesiders claim the Lidl
National League Division 1 title.
Tipperary, the newly-crowned TG4 All-Ireland
Intermediate champions, have two players on the list, a tally matched by
Tyrone, while Ulster champions Donegal, Armagh and Meath, the TG4 All-Ireland
Intermediate Finalists, each have one player nominated.
Seven players from the 2018 All Star team are
nominated for awards once again – and six of those are Dublin players, along
with Galway’s Sinéad Burke, who received a first TG4 All Star award last year.
Dublin goalkeeper Ciara Trant is joined on the 2019
list of nominees by team-mates Sinéad Goldrick, Siobhan McGrath, Lauren Magee,
TG4 All-Ireland Final Player of the Match Lyndsey Davey and three-in-a-row TG4
All-Ireland Senior Championship winning captain Sinéad Aherne, who was also the
2018 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year.
Dublin’s other nominees for 2019 are Éabha Rutledge,
Niamh Collins, Martha Byrne, Aoife Kane, Olwen Carey, Carla Rowe and Niamh
McEvoy.
Joining Burke from Galway on the list are goalkeeper
Lisa Murphy, the Ward sisters, Nicola and Louise, Olivia Divilly, Megan Glynn,
Mairéad Seoighe, captain Tracey Leonard, and her cousin, Róisín Leonard.
Mayo’s nine nominees are Danielle Caldwell, Éilis
Ronayne, Ciara McManamon, Ciara Whyte, Sinéad Cafferky, captain Niamh Kelly and
her sister, Grace, Sarah Rowe and Rachel Kearns.
Cork, meanwhile, have Eimear Meaney, Hannah Looney,
Melissa Duggan, Shauna Kelly, Ashling Hutchings, Eimear Scally and Orla Finn on
the list of nominations.
The efforts of TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Final
Player of the Match Aishling Moloney and Tipperary team-mate Aisling McCarthy
have been recognised with All-Star nominations, while Tyrone have Niamh McGirr
and Emma Jane Gervin nominated.
Caroline O’Hanlon (Armagh), Geraldine McLaughlin
(Donegal) and goalkeeper Monica McGuirk (Meath) complete the list.
Moloney (nominated for a third successive year),
McCarthy and McGuirk are the Intermediate Championship representatives on the
45-player list.
One player will be chosen from the three shortlisted
in each of the positions to make up the final selection, with the exception of
midfield, where two from six will be chosen.
The 2019 TG4 All Star team will be announced at a
gala banquet at the Citywest Hotel on Saturday, November 16, along with the
Junior, Intermediate and Senior Players’ Player of the Year award winners, the
Provincial Young Players of the Year and the 2019 inductee into the Ladies
Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) Hall of Fame.
2019
TG4 All Star nominations:
Goalkeeper
Ciara
Trant (Dublin)*, Lisa Murphy (Galway), Monica McGuirk
(Meath)
Right
corner back
Sinéad
Burke (Galway)*, Eimear Meaney (Cork), Éabha Rutledge
(Dublin)
Full
back
Hannah Looney (Cork), Niamh Collins (Dublin),
Danielle Caldwell (Mayo)
Left
corner back
Melissa Duggan (Cork), Martha Byrne (Dublin), Éilis
Ronayne (Mayo)
Right
half back
Nicola Ward (Galway), Aoife Kane (Dublin), Shauna
Kelly (Cork)
Centre
back
Ashling Hutchings (Cork), Sinéad Goldrick (Dublin)*, Ciara McManamon (Mayo)
Left
half back
Olwen Carey (Dublin), Ciara Whyte (Mayo), Niamh
McGirr (Tyrone)
Midfield
Lauren
Magee (Dublin)*, Louise Ward (Galway), Caroline O’Hanlon
(Armagh), Aisling McCarthy (Tipperary), Siobhan
McGrath (Dublin)*, Emma Jane Gervin (Tyrone)
Right
half forward
Carla Rowe (Dublin), Olivia Divilly (Galway), Sinéad
Cafferky (Mayo)
Centre
forward
Megan Glynn (Galway), Niamh McEvoy (Dublin),
Aishling Moloney (Tipperary)
Left
half forward
Niamh Kelly (Mayo), Lyndsey Davey (Dublin)*, Mairéad Seoighe (Galway)
Right corner forward:
Sarah Rowe (Mayo), Sinéad Aherne (Dublin)*, Tracey Leonard (Galway)
Full
forward
Eimear Scally (Cork), Rachel Kearns (Mayo),
Geradline McLaughlin (Donegal)
Left
corner forward
Grace Kelly (Mayo), Orla Finn (Cork), Róisín Leonard
(Galway)
*(denotes
2018 TG4 All Star)
County
by county breakdown
Dublin 13
Galway 9
Mayo 9
Cork 7
Tipperary 2
Tyrone 2
Armagh 1
Donegal 1
Meath 1
