LIMERICK’S RICHIE ENGLISH has been named the Bord Gáis Energy Player of the Year at the U21 Hurling Team of the Year Awards which were held at Dublin’s Marker Hotel tonight.
The Limerick defender beat out competition from his team-mate Diarmaid Byrnes and Wexford’s Conor McDonald after helping his county claim this year’s All-Ireland title.
Wicklow’s Anthony Byrne picked up the award for the B championship.
Commenting on the selection of English and Byrne for their respective awards, Bord Gáis Energy Sports Ambassador Ger Cunningham said:
“It’s a credit to these two individuals that they have been picked to receive these prestigious awards. It is the icing on the cake for both following their teams’ victories in the ‘A’ and ‘B’ championships.
“In a year where Limerick were outstanding they had a number of exceptional individual performers. There was consensus among the committee that Richie was the best of an excellent bunch.”
The 2015 Bord Gáis Energy Team of the Year was revealed on Newstalk’s ‘Off the Ball’ show over the course of the last four days. The winning players received their awards at tonight‘s ceremony.
2015 Bord Gáis Energy Team of the Year
1. David McCarthy (Limerick)
2. Liam Ryan (Wexford)
3. Richie English (Limerick)
4. Mikey Breen (Tipperary)
5. Diarmaid Byrnes (Limerick)
6. Barry O’Connell (Limerick)
7. Jack O’Connor (Wexford)
8. Darragh O’Donovan (Limerick)
9. Pat Ryan (Limerick)
10. Bobby Duggan (Clare)
11. Cian Lynch (Limerick)
12. Ian Galvin (Clare)
13. Brian Molloy (Galway)
14. Conor McDonald (Wexford)
15. Tom Morrissey (Limerick)
The 2015 Bord Gáis Energy Score of the Year was also revealed tonight. Wexford’s remarkable team goal, which was finished off by Cathal Dunbar, in their Leinster semi-final win against Offaly was voted by fans of the championship as the deserving winner.
Oh well that is okay then.
@Gillian Scully: They were proved innocent, what about Western Athletes on TUE’s from Wada?
@Alois Irlmaier: not proved innocent, just not proved guilty. Big difference.
Is the wording relevant? They found that they hadn’t benefited from it, does that mean they didn’t do it at all or they did it and failed?
Have lost interest in Olympic sport a long time ago. Don’t trust anything I see.
Great news !
Life bans are ridiculous they are hard to maintain in real courts of law, CAS/DRA once sports rulings impinge on natural justice they are in trouble. Blanket bans are politically motivated decisions, athletes are entitled to serve a time ban. Not that it means anything any way look at the persecution of the Munster Rugby player – crazy
Lee Evans said it best. Just let them all take drugs. Do the bobsled event by running down the track in about 4.5 seconds. I’d watch That!
@David O’Brien: yep . Just have 2 seperate events juiced vs clean and have a big event after to see if clean can beat juiced naturally.
@David O’Brien: They are as they are called TUE’s once that country pays a wad of cash to the right organisation, which Russia hasn’t.
Not sufficient evidence?? The head of the lab said there overwhelming amount. Of doping lol
@Chris Finn: Is that the same head who got US citizenship for saying that the Russian athletes took drugs and was set up in his own lab in the US. Why give him his own lab??? The same man who told athletes to drink the steroids in Martinis, that was funny as steroids are injected not mixed in alcohol that can change the steroid chemically. As well as sticking bottles in and out of holes in a wall where there was never any evidence of holes in the wall… But who cares about facts… They are Russian so they must have done something bad because the US tells us what to believe…
IOC in my view trying to save face, if Russia doesn’t play by U.S. political rules dictated by their own business lobbyists the U.S. will turn the West against Russia. The US has turned the Olympics into a political battle field while Western Athletes continue with their TUE’s where asthmatics are being used to win gold medals for countries over healthy athletes. The corruption in my view just blows my mind…