All-Ireland Senior Champions Kerry leads the way on the list of nominations for the coveted 2024 TG4 All-Star Awards.
The Kingdom, who won the Brendan Martin Cup at Croke Park on Sunday, August 4th, make up one-third of the 45-player long list, with 15 players in the running for the prestigious individual gongs.
Runners-up Galway have nine players nominated, Lidl National League Division 1 Champions Armagh are next in line with eight, Dublin have five players nominated, Cork have four, while players from Meath, Kildare, Tipperary and Waterford have also been included in the list compiled by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s All-Star committee.
Kerry captured their 12th TG4 All-Ireland Senior title, and first since 1993, this year and that landmark success is reflected in the list of TG4 All-Star nominations.
The 2024 list also includes six players who received TG4 All-Star Awards in 2023 – Kerry trio EilÃs Lynch, captain Niamh Carmody and Louise Nà Mhuircheartaigh, and Dublin’s Leah Caffrey, Jennifer Dunne and captain Carla Rowe.
Along with Lynch, Carmody and Nà Mhuircheartaigh, Kerry also have goalkeeper Ciara Butler, winner of the 2024 ZuCar Golden Glove Award, defenders Ciara Murphy, Kayleigh Cronin, Aishling O’Connell, Aoife Dillane and Deirdre Kearney, midfielders Anna Galvin and Mary O’Connell, and forwards Niamh Nà Chonchúir, SÃofra O’Shea, Danielle O’Leary and Emma Dineen nominated for 2024 TG4 All-Star Awards.
Galway’s nine nominees are goalkeeper Dearbhla Gower, defenders Kate Geraghty, Sarah Nà Loingsigh, Aoife Nà Cheallaigh, Nicola Ward, midfielder and captain Ailbhe Davoren, and forwards Louise Ward, Olivia Divilly and RóisÃn Leonard.
Armagh’s Lidl National League success and subsequent march to the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-finals are recognised by eight nominees: goalkeeper Anna Carr, defenders Clodagh McCambridge (captain), Grace Ferguson, Cait Towe, and Lauren McConville, midfielder Caroline O’Hanlon, and forwards Aoife McCoy and BlaithÃn Mackin.
Dublin relinquished the TG4 All-Ireland Senior title they won in 2023 but they still have five nominees for TG4 All-Stars – defenders Leah Caffrey and Sinéad Goldrick, midfielder Jennifer Dunne, and forwards Caoimhe O’Connor and captain Carla Rowe.
Cork progressed to the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-finals, where they lost to Galway. The Leesiders have four players nominated: defender Melissa Duggan, midfielder and captain Máire O’Callaghan, and forwards Emma Cleary and Katie Quirke.
Emma Duggan (Meath), RóisÃn Byrne (Kildare – 2023 TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year), Aishling Moloney (Tipperary) and Emma Murray (Waterford) make up the remainder of the 45-player longlist.
On the 2024 TG4 All-Star team, one goalkeeper will be chosen from the shortlist of three. Three players will be selected from each of the full-back, half-back, half-forward, and full-forward lines for inclusion, along with two midfielders from the six nominated.
The 2024 TG4 All-Star team will be announced at a gala banquet at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday, November 16th.
The 2024 TG4 Junior, Intermediate and Senior Players’ Player of the Year Award winners will also be revealed on the night, while the 2024 inductee into the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) Hall of Fame will be acknowledged.
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