Nov 18,2024
All-Ireland senior champions Kerry lead the way with seven representatives on the 2024 TG4 Ladies Football All-Star team, with Galway's Nicola Ward named the Senior Players' Player of the Year.
Kerry’s seven winners are goalkeeper Ciara Butler, defenders Kayleigh Cronin and Aishling O’Connell, midfielder Anna Galvin, and forward trio Niamh Carmody, Danielle O’Leary and Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh.
Runners-up Galway have been rewarded with four awards, namely defenders Kate Geraghty and Nicola Ward, midfielder and captain Ailbhe Davoren, and Olivia Divilly in the half-forward line.
There are three Armagh players on this year's side, with defenders Grace Ferguson and Lauren McConville acknowledged, along with forward Aoife McCoy.
There’s also recognition for Cork, who progressed to the TG4 All-Ireland semi-finals, with Katie Quirke named at full-forward.
The coveted individual accolade for Nicola Ward capped a memorable night for the 28-year-old Kilkerrin-Clonberne player, who also collected a second All-Star, to add to her previous success in 2019.
Ward held off competition from Kerry's Kayleigh Cronin and Armagh’s Lauren McConville to win the award, which was voted for by fellow inter-county players.
The 2024 Intermediate Players' Player of the Year award, meanwhile, went to Leitrim captain Michelle Guckian, while Fermanagh's Eimear Smyth was named the Junior Players' Player of the Year.
Laois legend Sue Ramsbottom was officially inducted into the LGFA Hall of Fame.
Ramsbottom was a TG4 All-Ireland senior medallist in 2001, and has seven All-Star awards to her name.
