Kerry, the All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Champions, led the way with seven representatives on the 2024 TG4 Ladies Football All-Star team.

The annual selection was revealed on Saturday night at the annual TG4 All-Star awards banquet, in association with Lidl, as the Bonnington Dublin Hotel.

Kerry’s seven winners are goalkeeper Ciara Butler, defenders Kayleigh Cronin and Aishling O’Connell, midfielder Anna Galvin, and forward trio Niamh Carmody, Danielle O’Leary and Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh.

Cronin won the Player of the Match award for an outstanding performance against Galway in the 2024 TG4 All-Ireland Final at Croke Park on Sunday, August 4. Carmody captained the Kingdom to a first All-Ireland Senior title in 31 years.

Runners-up Galway have been rewarded with four TG4 All-Star awards: defenders Kate Geraghty and Nicola Ward, midfielder and captain Ailbhe Davoren, and Olivia Divilly in the half-forward line.

Armagh, the 2024 Lidl National League Division 1 winners and All-Ireland semi-finalists, received three All-Star awards. Defenders Grace Ferguson and Lauren McConville and forward Aoife McCoy were acknowledged.

There was also recognition for Cork, who progressed to the TG4 All-Ireland semi-finals, with Katie Quirke named at full-forward.

The team comprises no fewer than ten first-time award winners, as Butler, Ferguson, Geraghty, McConville, Galvin, Davoren, McCoy, Divilly, O’Leary and Quirke received maiden All-Star awards.

Cronin, O’Connell, and Ward picked up All-Star awards for the second time in their careers. Carmody is now a three-time winner for the third year in succession, while Ní Mhuircheartaigh picked up her fifth award and third in a row.

Carmody and Ní Mhuircheartaigh are the two players named on this year’s selection who also featured on the 2023 TG4 All-Star team.

Galway pair Ward and Divilly both hail from the Kilkerrin-Clonberne club in Galway, the current AIB All-Ireland Senior club champions.

Ward’s night kept on getting better as she was then named as the 2024 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year.
She enjoyed a superb season in Galway colours, driving her team forward from defence and earning the Player of the Match award for her All-Ireland quarter-final display against Dublin at Parnell Park when the Tribeswomen knocked out the then-defending champions.
Galway then saw off the challenge of Cork to reach the TG4 All-Ireland Final, where they lost out to Kerry.
Ward held off stiff competition from Kerry’s Kayleigh Cronin and Armagh’s Lauren McConville to win the Senior Players’ Player of the Year award, which was voted for by fellow inter-county players.
Meanwhile, the 2024 TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year award went to Leitrim captain Michelle Guckian, while Eimear Smyth of Fermanagh was named Junior Players’ Player of the Year.
Laois legend Sue Ramsbottom was officially inducted into the LGFA Hall of Fame earlier in the evening.
Ramsbottom was a TG4 All-Ireland Senior medallist in 2001 and won seven TG4 All-Star awards during a glittering career.

 

 

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