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FOLLOWING fast on the recent Vodafone awards, Bernard Brogan (Dublin) and Lar Corbett (Tipperary) were last night again named as player-of-the-year in football and hurling for 2010, respectively, but this time by their peers, the members of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).

The occasion was the annual gala banquet of the players’ body held at the Citywest complex, which honoured the GPA teams-of-the-year in hurling and football.

Honoured alongside those, however, were the top individuals from the various championship competitions, and while both Bernard and Lar were again the big winners, also coming up trumps last night were the lesser heralded trio of Joe Clarke (Westmeath, Christy Ring Cup player-of-the-year), Paul McCormack (Armagh, Nicky Rackard Cup player-of-the-year), Garret Ghee (Longford, Lory Meagher Cup player-of-the-year).