Players’ award for Murphy as Cork claim six All Stars

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork dominated the O’Neills/TG4 Ladies Gaelic Football All Stars at a gala function at the CityWest Hotel on Saturday night.

Deirdre O’Reilly, Briege Corkery, Bríd Stack, Geraldine O’Flynn, Juliet Murphy and Rhona Ní Bhuachalla claimed six statuettes for the Rebels while Murphy was honoured with the inaugural senior Players’ Player of the Year Award.

Monaghan won four awards (Gráinne McNally, Sharon Courtney, Therese McNally and Ciara McAnespie); Leinster champions Laois were represented by Tracey Lawlor and Mary Kirwan while Dublin pair Elaine Kelly and Sinéad Aherne were also honoured. Meath’s Irene Munnelly was selected as goalkeeper.