Cats get the cream at All Stars

All-Ireland and league champions Kilkenny, as expected, have cleaned up in this year's Vodafone hurling All Star awards.

The Cats picked up eight of the available 15 awards, with JJ Delaney, Tommy Walsh and Eddie Brennan collecting their first prizes.

All-Ireland runners-up Cork had a total of four players chosen: brothers Sean Og and Setanta O hAilpín, Joe Deane and Ronan Curran - who made his senior debut this year.

Waterford's John Mullane, Tipperary's Brendan Cummins and Galway's Ollie Canning are the only winners outside of the All-Ireland final participants.

2003 All Stars

Kilkenny

Michael Kavanagh

Noel Hickey

JJ Delaney

Derek Lyng

Henry Shefflin

Tommy Walsh

Martin Comerford

Eddie Brennan

Cork

Ronan Curran

Sean Og O hAilpin

Setanta O hAilpin

Joe Deane

Galway

Ollie Canning

Tipperary

Brendan Cummins

Waterford

John Mullane