THE NOMINEES FOR the GAA-GPA Opel player of the month awards for July have been revealed with Monaghan, Mayo, Kildare, Waterford, Kilkenny and Galway all represented.
The shortlist for the football accolade includes Mayo star Aidan O’Shea, Monaghan’s Conor McManus and Paul Cribbin of Kildare.
O’Shea produced one of the most sparkling displays of sharp-shooting in the Connacht championship final demolition of Sligo, finishing with 3-4 to his name.
McManus, meanwhile, spearheaded Monaghan’s provincial crown in Ulster as he scored 0-6 in the final against Donegal and Cribbin starred as Kildare enjoyed an extended run to the quarter-final.
Conor McManus (Monaghan)
Aidan O’Shea (Mayo)
Paul Cribbin (Kildare)
Maurice Shanahan (Waterford)
TJ Reid (Kilkenny)
Jonathon Glynn (Galway)
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Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO" title="">In the hurling category, Waterford’s Maurice Shanahan, Kilkenny forward TJ Reid and Jonathon Glynn of Galway are in the running.
Although the Déise fell short in the Munster final, Shanahan scored 0-8 before inspiring Waterford to victory over Dublin in the All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park with 1-12.
TJ Reid and Kilkenny played just once in July but the Ballyhale Shamrocks man fired 1-9 in the Leinster final win over Galway at HQ.
Galway remain in the hunt for the Liam McCarthy Cup and central to their run to the semi-finals has been 22-year-old Glynn. A return of 1-4 from two outings during July included one of Galway’s two goals against Cork in the quarter-final.
The winners will be chosen by the inter-county playing body and will be announced at a presentation at Croke Park on Wednesday morning.
Who do you think deserves to scoop the silverware?
Mike Ditka is an idiot. His response was entirely predictable.
Unsure where this protest is going. Aside from anything else, it’s been fun to see the likes of Ditka, Jerry Jones etc. get their knickers in a twist.
It really is quite scary how jingoistic some old people in America are. It’s a feckin national anthem lads, get over yourselves. There are things bigger than you or it.
Kapernick is fast turning into an absolute hero. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of your country and it’s military, but putting a flag and some quaint old song ahead of people’s lives has no place in today’s society.
Think the whole thing a class issue rather than a racial issue. The entire protest is a load of codswallop.
@ET PHONE HOME: Class and race go hand in hand in America
Facts please Stephen.
Not your opinion!
It’s marked as an opinion piece…
Hi Eddie,
A) It’s an opinion piece as Redzone has been for five years now.
B) It’s clearly marked as opinion piece.
C) As for facts, Keith Lamont Scott was shot dead by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer, Mike Ditka is an idiot and Colin Kaepernick has right on his side. Not sure what more ‘facts’ you need.
D) Have a nice evening.
Oooooo, that’s a deep burn Eddie….
Are those Eddie’s options? I would go with E. Read the piece first before commenting! I ain’t no journalist writer type person but it’s always best to leave out such things as calling someone ‘an idiot’, regardless of how true it may be, it just stoops to a level it doesn’t need to go. ‘The moral high ground to which you aspire could turn into into a slippery slope.’ As for my option… I’m gonna pick D.
Another fact might be that he had a gun and disobeyed both the police officer and his relative who were shouting at him to stop multiple times. Another fact might be that 5 white men were also shot dead by police the same day. Another fact might be that not one of those shootings resulted in race riots where black people were getting attacked by vicious mobs of whites, looting stores, destroying public and private property. A reactive opinion on those facts might be that were such riots were to take place the people perpetrating them would not be mollycoddled by the media and referred to as “protesters”. There are 2 sides to every story. I respect your opinions and thank you for writing the article but my personal assessment of the facts leads me to a conclusion different to yours. Which I am sure you will respect also.
What the some of the cops have been doing is totally wrong but there are 30 shootings plus a week in Chicago black/black crime and there has never been any protests about it.
They are all on the bandwagon at this stage. CK tryna be relevant because he hasn’t been that on a football field in almost 3 years
Colin Keapernick is performing a peace civil protest designed to engage. It’s worked, it seems blacks aren’t allowed to protest peacefully or with violence without criticism. Fyi, there have been many many protests about crime in Chicago and beyond. You just don’t hear about it, why? Because their black and Noone gives a chit….. until those protests are about the white establishment.
I think one thing everyone can probably agree on is that the race issue and trouble at the moment in the US is one hell of a complex , emotive and deeply polarising subject. Rights , wrongs , double standards and hypocrisy on both sides.
YouTube Shannon Sharpe he’s brilliant at explaining. You will understand it after.