ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Galway have 14 players nominated for the 2017 All-Star hurling awards with beaten finalists Waterford having 11 nominations.
The two sides lead the way in the 45-player shortlist that has been released this morning ahead of the awards, which have new sponsors this year in PWC, at the Convention Centre in Dublin on Friday 3 November.
The only member of the Liam MacCarthy winning side that started in the All-Ireland final not to be nominated is Galway’s forward Johnny Glynn, who was making his first 2017 championship start in the decider.
10 of Waterford’s starting team from the final are nominated, along with defender Conor Gleeson who missed the game through suspension.
Munster champions Cork are next in line with eight players represented with All-Ireland semi-finalists Tipperary having five players selected.
Wexford are rewarded for an encouraging season with four nominations with the Kilkenny duo of Cillian Buckley and TJ Reid, and Clare’s Shane O’Donnell also in the frame.
Seven of last year’s All-Star winning team are nominated on this occasion – Daithi Burke, Padraic Maher, Jamie Barron, David Burke, Austin Gleeson, Seamus Callanan and John McGrath.
The list of nominees in full is:
Goalkeepers
- Colm Callanan (Galway)
- Anthony Nash (Cork)
- Stephen O’Keeffe (Waterford)
Defenders
- Daithí Burke (Galway)
- Gearóid McInerney (Galway)
- John Hanbury (Galway)
- Padraig Mannion (Galway)
- Aidan Harte (Galway)
- Adrian Tuohy (Galway)
- Noel Connors (Waterford)
- Tadhg de Búrca (Waterford)
- Darragh Fives (Waterford)
- Conor Gleeson (Waterford)
- Philip Mahony (Waterford)
- Mark Coleman (Cork)
- Colm Spillane (Cork)
- Damien Cahalane (Cork)
- Padraic Maher (Tipperary)
- Diarmuid O’Keeffe (Wexford)
- Matthew O’Hanlon (Wexford)
- Cillian Buckley (Kilkenny)
Midfielders
- David Burke (Galway)
- Johnny Coen (Galway)
- Jamie Barron (Waterford)
- Brendan Maher (Tipperary)
- Darragh Fitzgibbon (Cork)
- Lee Chin (Wexford)
Forwards
- Joe Canning (Galway)
- Conor Cooney (Galway)
- Joseph Cooney (Galway)
- Conor Whelan (Galway)
- Cathal Mannion (Galway)
- Pauric Mahony (Waterford)
- Kevin Moran (Waterford)
- Michael Walsh (Waterford)
- Austin Gleeson (Waterford)
- Alan Cadogan (Cork)
- Patrick Horgan (Cork)
- Conor Lehane (Cork)
- John McGrath (Tipperary)
- Noel McGrath (Tipperary)
- Seamus Callanan (Tipperary)
- TJ Reid (Kilkenny)
- Shane O’Donnell (Clare)
- Conor McDonald (Wexford)
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Imagine McGregor answering a knock on his door this morning and there’s a lad standing there in a lab coat with a sample cup in his hand
@David Garland: he’d be fine. He’s not scheduled to compete so they’d only be tearing for performance enhancing drugs out of competition… only during competition do they test for recreational drugs..
There were a load of comments here that are now deleted. Did someone say something they shouldnt have?
@NiallKelly . Why did you delete my question? Free speech…
Free speech isnt a law in ireland, up until recently blasphemy was illegal here, so those two concepts dont exactly go hand in hand. I just think it’s interesting that what people said under this article is the exact same that they were saying under the article about McGregor slapping an official. (unless more comments were added that i didnt see and the42 decided to delete them all)
@Rudiger McMonihan: I’d like to get the author’s opinion on why it is ‘illegal’ on here to ask a question about drugs on an article about drugs.