Kerry and Dublin lead All Star award nominations 

Kerry lead the way with 13 nominations while All-Ireland Champions Dublin have 12.
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.

2023 TG4 All Star nominees:

Goalkeepers 

Abby Shiels – Dublin 

Ciara Butler – Kerry 

*Monica McGuirk – Meath 

Full Back Line 

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 

Half Back Line 

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 

Midfield 

*Niamh McLaughlin – Donegal 

Jennifer Dunne – Dublin 

Eilish O’Dowd – Dublin 

Louise Galvin – Kerry 

Lorraine Scanlon – Kerry 

Nicola Ward – Galway 

Half Forward Line 

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 

Full Forward Line

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 

County by county breakdown:

Kerry 13, Dublin 12, Mayo 5, Armagh 3, Cork 3, Donegal 3, Meath 3, Clare 1, Galway 1, Kildare 1.

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