The 45 nominees for the 2019 TG4 All Star Ladies Football team have been revealed. They include 13 from the succesful three time champions Dublin, nine each from Galway and Mayo and seven from Cork who lost out to Dublin in the semi-final.
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 winning captain Sinéad Aherne, who was also the 2018 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year.
Dublin’s other nominees for 2019 are the strong full back line of Éabha Rutledge, Niamh Collins and Martha Byrne as well as Aoife Kane, Olwen Carey, Carla Rowe and Niamh McEvoy.
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.
