Kerry and Dublin lead All Star award nominations

NOMINATIONS: 2023 TG4 Ladies Football All Stars nominees revealed. Pic: LGFA
Dublin and Kerry dominate the list of nominations for the 2023 TG4 All Star awards. All Ireland finalists Kerry lead the way with 13 nominations with champions Dublin getting 12.
The long list of 45 nominees from ten counties and includes nine players from the 2022 TG4 All Star team.
Dublin won their sixth All Ireland title this year, their first since 2020 with a powerful display in the final. Kerry were defeated by Dublin in the All Ireland final but they were crowned Lidl National League Division one champions.
Dublin and Kerry have 25 nominations between them with Mayo who lost out in the semi-final to Kerry have five nominations.
There are three nominations for Armagh, Cork, Donegal and Meath while Clare, Galway and Kildare have one nomination each.
Dublin's 12 nominees are goalkeeper Abby Shiels, defenders Niamh Crowley, Leah Caffrey, Martha Byrne and Lauren Magee, midfield pair Jennifer Dunne and Eilish O’Dowd, and forwards Orlagh Nolan, Caoimhe O’Connor, Kate Sullivan, team captain Carla Rowe and Hannah Tyrrell, who was the All-Ireland Senior Final Player of the Match.
The 13 nominees from Kerry are goalkeeper Ciara Butler, defenders Kayleigh Cronin, Eilís Lynch, Emma Costello, Cáit Lynch and Aishling O’Connell, midfielders Louise Galvin and Lorraine Scanlon, and forwards Niamh Carmody, Anna Galvin, Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh, who was top scorer in the 2023 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship, Danielle O’Leary and captain Síofra O’Shea.
Cronin, Lynch, O’Connell, Carmody and Ní Mhuircheartaigh were all named on the 2022 TG4 All Star team.
Mayo's five nominees are defenders Danielle Caldwell (a 2022 TG4 All Star), Clodagh McManamon, Ciara Needham and team captain Kathryn Sullivan, and attacker Sinéad Cafferky.
Armagh’s trio of nominees are defenders Clodagh McCambridge and Lauren McConville, and forward Aoife McCoy, while Cork’s nominees are defender Róisín Phelan and attacking sisters Ciara and Doireann O’Sullivan.
Donegal's defender Amy Boyle Carr, 2022 All Star and Senior Players’ Player of the Year, Niamh McLaughlin, who’s listed at midfield, and forward Niamh Hegarty on the list, while Meath are represented by three-time and current All Star goalkeeper, Monica McGuirk, defender Mary Kate Lynch and another current All Star, forward Emma Duggan.
Galway’s Nicola Ward (nominated at midfield), Clare’s Fidelma Marrinan (forward) and Kildare’s Róisín Byrne (forward) make up the 45-strong list.
Marrinan and Byrne are the players from the Intermediate grade who earned their All Star nominations.
One of the three goalkeepers shortlisted will be chosen with three players selected from each of the full-back, half-back, half-forward and full-forward lines for inclusion for the All Star team with two of the six nominated midfielders.
The All Star team will be announced at a gala banquet on Saturday November 18 at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel.
The 2023 TG4 Junior, Intermediate and Senior Player' Player of the Year award winners will also be announced on the night and the 2023 inductee to the LFGA Hall of Fame will be revealed on the night.
Abby Shiels – Dublin
Ciara Butler – Kerry
*Monica McGuirk – Meath
Clodagh McCambridge – Armagh
Róisín Phelan – Cork
Niamh Crowley – Dublin
Leah Caffrey – Dublin
*Kayleigh Cronin – Kerry
Eilís Lynch – Kerry
*Danielle Caldwell – Mayo
Clodagh McManamon – Mayo
Mary Kate Lynch – Meath
Lauren McConville – Armagh
Amy Boyle Carr – Donegal
Martha Byrne – Dublin
Lauren Magee – Dublin
Emma Costello – Kerry
*Cáit Lynch – Kerry
*Aishling O’Connell – Kerry
Ciara Needham – Mayo
Kathryn Sullivan – Mayo
*Niamh McLaughlin – Donegal
Jennifer Dunne – Dublin
Eilish O’Dowd – Dublin
Louise Galvin – Kerry
Lorraine Scanlon – Kerry
Nicola Ward – Galway
Fidelma Marrinan – Clare
Ciara O’Sullivan – Cork
Orlagh Nolan – Dublin
Caoimhe O’Connor – Dublin
Kate Sullivan – Dublin
*Niamh Carmody – Kerry
Anna Galvin – Kerry
Sinéad Cafferky – Mayo
*Emma Duggan – Meath
Aoife McCoy – Armagh
Doireann O’Sullivan – Cork
Niamh Hegarty – Donegal
Carla Rowe – Dublin
Hannah Tyrrell – Dublin
*Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh – Kerry
Danielle O’Leary – Kerry
Síofra O’Shea – Kerry
Róisín Byrne – Kildare
*denotes 2022 TG4 All Star
Kerry 13, Dublin 12, Mayo 5, Armagh 3, Cork 3, Donegal 3, Meath 3, Clare 1, Galway 1, Kildare 1.