THE NOMINEES FOR the GAA-GPA Opel player of the month awards for June have been revealed with Galway, Donegal, Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford and Tipperary all represented.
Galway midfielder Paul Conroy, Donegal player Ryan McHugh and Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly are in the running for the football accolade.
Kilkenny’s Jonjo Farrell, Waterford’s Austin Gleeson and Tipperary’s Cathal Barrett will battle it out for the hurling award.
Conroy was man-of-the-match in Galway’s stirring success against Mayo in the Connacht semi-final, McHugh has been central to Donegal’s progress to another Ulster decider while Connolly starred for Dublin in their Leinster championship wins over Laois and Meath.
Farrell shot 1-5 from play last month as Kilkenny defeated Dublin, Gleeson was magnificent in Waterford’s success against Clare while Barrett impressed in Tipperary’s win over Limerick.
The winners will be announced on Thursday 14 July.
Who would get your vote? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Best player ever, off his nut the whole time and still dragged a team to a world cup and helped napoli to league titles. Absolute genius
The Greatest
Should be a movie, what a legend.
@Dave O’Hanlon: True, surprised that there hasn’t been. Plenty of material to work with anyway!
Wel done Eoin fantastic article, great to hear about the other side of things
@Johnny Bravo: Really?? I knew you were only a young lad.. Anyone with any real interest of football knows all about his woes.Been too well documented over the years. More importantly people remember his absolute genius on the pitch. Personally found the article a very monotonous regurgitated piece of jounalism.
Terrible article really about maradonna. We all know his issues off the pitch. God knows there is countless books. Not enough about problems his feet caused in the article. Also won a european title with napoli. An unbelievable achievment orchestrated by his talent. Or not a mention of tje brutality he sufffered by getting kicked to pieces for his entire stay in Spain yet still made them look ridiculous. No, very bad excerpt. After all we’re talking about the greatest footballer to ever live. Total genius. Bad form!
The GOAT.
As far as i know he won 2 leagues with Napoli and a European cup, possibly the UEFA cup. He was a mad genius as are most of those who aspire to greatness. He continues to be a bit touched even as we speak. Where did it all go wrong?