Month: April 2022

Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan with Galway’s Daithi Burke Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO SEVEN PLAYERS FROM All-Ireland champions Tipperary and four from beaten finalists Kilkenny have been honoured “7 from Tipperary and 4 from Kilkenny – the 2016 All-Star hurling team”

FOR THE FIRST time in the history of the All-Stars, both the Footballer of the Year and Hurler of the Year have come from counties “Lee Keegan and Austin Gleeson take home GAA/GPA Footballer and Hurler of the Year awards”

MAYO’S DIARMUID O’CONNOR and Deise star Austin Gleeson were honoured with the prestigious Young Player of the Year awards at tonight’s GAA/GPA Opel Allstar bash “O’Connor and Gleeson scoop GAA/GPA Young Hurler and Young Footballer of the Year awards”

NESTLED IN NORTH Cork, just off the Mallow-Cork road lies a close-knit rural ladies football team with a huge drive and hunger to succeed. Source: “How a small Cork-based club rose to the brink of All-Ireland glory”

CASTLEKNOCK, A WEST-Dublin club only in its late-teens is not the most likely candidate for supremecy in the highly competitive Dublin senior football championship. Source: “Castleknock’s remarkable journey to the top of Dublin club football”

Home Dundalk’s Chris Shields. Source: Mikhail Kireev/INPHO Stephen Kenny’s Dundalk once again won plenty of admirers but were beaten 2-1 away to Zenit St Petersburg “We’ll Leave It There So: Schmidt names Ireland team, brave Dundalk fall short and today’s sport”

Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO THE FINEST HURLERS from around the country will descend on Dublin’s Convention Centre for the latest installment of the GAA/GPA All-Stars. The football awards “Open Thread – Who makes your 2016 All-Star hurling team?”

AIDAN O’SHEA WILL spend the winter honing his handling skills on the basketball court after EJ’s Sligo All-Stars announced they’ve signed the 26-year-old Mayo star. “Aidan O’Shea is returning to basketball for the first time in 7 years”

THE FOOTBALL ALL-STARS were announced this morning, as 15 players were honoured for spectacular seasons in 2016.  That left 30 footballers who were nominated out “7 players who were unlucky to miss out on a football All-Star this year”

Mayo’s Lee Keegan and Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly are amongst the award winners. Source: James Crombie/INPHO SIX PLAYERS FROM All-Ireland champions Dublin and four from beaten “6 from Dublin and 4 from Mayo – here’s the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star football team”