All-Ireland champions Kilkenny sweep the boards at Camogie All Stars

Kilkenny’s Denise Gaule was named Players' Player of the Year at Saturday night's Camogie All Stars Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie

All-Ireland senior camogie champions Kilkenny have six players on the All-Stars team which was announced during a virtual awards ceremony on Saturday evening.

And there were further celebrations for the Cats as Denise Gaule was named the Camogie Association/WGPA Senior Players’ Player of the Year while Brian Dowling was named as Manager of the Year for the first time after guiding his team to glory in December.

All-Ireland runners-up Galway received two awards, with Tipperary and Cork receiving three awards each and Waterford completing the line-up with one award.

Full-back Claire Phelan, left half-back Davina Tobin, midfielder Grace Walsh, left half-forward Gaule, full-forward Miriam Walsh and left corner-forward Anne Dalton all collected statutes on the back of their All-Ireland winning season..

Galways’s right corner-back Shauna Healy and right corner-forward Orlaith McGrath were honoured as were Tipperary players Áine Slattery (goalkeeper), Mary Ryan (left corner-back) and Karen Kennedy (centre half-back).

Cork trio Hannah Looney (right half-back), Chloe Sigerson (midfield) and Orla Cronin (centre half-forward) along with Waterford captain and right half-forward Niamh Rockett completed this year’s winning selection.

Meanwhile All-Ireland Intermediate champions Down lead the 2020 Soaring Stars Awards with six players.

2020 All-Stars team sponsored by Liberty Insurance: Goalkeeper: Áine Slattery (Tipperary); Right Corner-Back: Shauna Healy (Galway, Full-Back: Claire Phelan (Kilkenny), Left Corner-Back: Mary Ryan (Tipperary); Right Half-Back: Hannah Looney (Cork), Centre Half-Back: Karen Kennedy (Tipperary), Left Half-Back: Davina Tobin (Kilkenny); Midfield: Chloe Sigerson (Cork), Midfield: Grace Walsh (Kilkenny); Right Half-Forward: Niamh Rockett (Waterford), Centre Half-Forward: Orla Cronin (Cork), Left Half-Forward: Denise Gaule (Kilkenny); Right Corner-Forward: Orlaith McGrath (Galway), Full-Forward: Miriam Walsh (Kilkenny), Left Corner-Forward: Anne Dalton (Kilkenny).

2020 Soaring Stars sponsored by Liberty Insurance: Goalkeeper: Aedin Lowry (Laois); Right Corner-Back: Claire Coffey (Meath), Full-Back: Dearbhla Magee (Down), Left Corner-Back: Chloe Drain (Antrim); Right Half-Back: Niamh Donnelly (Antrim), Centre Half-Back: Fionnuala Carr (Down), Left Half-Back: Clodagh Tynan (Laois); Midfield: Roisin O’Keefe (Cavan), Midfield: Paula O’Hagan (Down); Right Half-Forward: Leanne Donnelly (Armagh), Centre Half-Forward: Sara-Louise Graffin (Down), Left Half-Forward: Maeve Kelly (Antrim); Right Corner-Forward: Niamh Mallon (Down), Full-Forward: Ciara Donnelly (Armagh), Left Corner-Forward: Sorcha McCartan (Down).

2020 Manager of the Year: Brian Dowling, Kilkenny.

2020 Camogie Association/WGPA Players’ Player of the Year:

Senior Players’ Player of the Year: Denise Gaule (Kilkenny);

Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year: Niamh Mallon (Down);

Junior Players’ Player of the Year: Ciara Donnelly (Armagh).