Cork and Galway top hurling nominations

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork and runners-up Galway dominate the nominations for the 2005 Vodafone Allstar hurling team, sharing 22 nominations between them.

A further 15 go to Munster counties Clare, Tipperary, Waterford and Limerick, with Kilkenny having just five of their players nominated and three from Wexford.

Just 20 of the players chosen as nominees last year are again included, among them eight who won awards - Damien Fitzhenry, Diarmuid O’Sullivan, Tommy Walsh, Sean Óg O hAilpín, Henry Shefflin, Eoin Kelly (Tipperary) and Brian Corcoran.