Gardiner and O’Neill win GPA awards

CORK’S John Gardiner and Tyrone’s Stephen O’Neill were last night named the GPA Players of the Year for hurling and football.

GPA Chief Executive Dessie Farrell then warned of a more militant stance in its future relationship with Croke Park.

O’Neill and Gardiner were voted the season’s best in a poll of their peers and both will receive an Opel Astra Sport Hatch car in further recognition of their efforts.