Paul Conroy: It took me longer than I expected to win an All-Star

The 35-year-old Galway midfielder was named 2024 footballer of the year on Friday. 

STANDOUT: Galway's Paul Conroy. Picture: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Paul Conroy is hardly the first footballer to mark a first All-Star with a PwC footballer of the year award.

There was Kieran McGeary in 2021 and before him the likes of Jack McCaffrey in ’15, Bernard Brogan in ’10 and Kieran Donaghy in ’06 but all of those winners were in their 20s at the time.