ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Limerick’s dominance this year is reflected in 15 nominations for the 2021 Pwc All-Star awards, after the 45-player hurling shortlist was released today.
John Kiely’s all-conquering team received 14 nominations for their success in the 2020 season and they have gone one better in the 2021 list.
Nine counties in all have players nominated with beaten All-Ireland finalists Cork next in line with nine players in the running. The defeated All-Ireland semi-finalists Waterford and Kilkenny have seven and five nominations respectively.
Then Clare and Tipperary have three apiece while Dublin’s Danny Sutcliffe, Laois player Paddy Purcell and Wexford’s Lee Chin are the representatives for their counties.
There are 13 players from the 2020 All-Star team nominated on this occasion in Limerick’s Nickie Quaid, Sean Finn, Dan Morrissey, Diarmaid Byrnes, Kyle Hayes, Gearoid Hegarty, Cian Lynch, Tom Morrissey and Aaron Gillane, the Waterford duo of Jamie Barron and Stephen Bennett, Clare’s Tony Kelly and Kilkenny’s TJ Reid.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
2021 All-Star Hurling Nominees
Goalkeepers
- 1. Patrick Collins (Cork)
- 2. Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny)
- 3. Nickie Quaid (Limerick)
Defenders
- 1. Rory Hayes (Clare)
- 2. Mark Coleman (Cork)
- 3. Robert Downey (Cork)
- 4. Sean O’Donoghue (Cork)
- 5. Tim O’Mahony (Cork)
- 6. Paddy Deegan (Kilkenny)
- 7. Huw Lawlor (Kilkenny)
- 8. Seán Finn (Limerick)
- 9. Dan Morrissey (Limerick)
- 10. Barry Nash (Limerick)
- 11. Diarmaid Byrnes (Limerick)
- 12. Declan Hannon (Limerick)
- 13. Kyle Hayes (Limerick)
- 14. Cathal Barrett (Tipperary)
- 15. Ronan Maher (Tipperary)
- 16. Kieran Bennett (Waterford)
- 17. Calum Lyons (Waterford)
- 18. Conor Prunty (Waterford)
Midfielders
- 1. Cathal Malone (Clare)
- 2. Tony Kelly (Clare)
- 3. Paddy Purcell (Laois)
- 4. William O’Donoghue (Limerick)
- 5. Darragh O’Donovan (Limerick)
- 6. Jamie Barron (Waterford)
Forwards
- 1. Seamus Harnedy (Cork)
- 2. Patrick Horgan (Cork)
- 3. Shane Kingston (Cork)
- 4. Jack O’Connor (Cork)
- 5. Danny Sutcliffe (Dublin)
- 6. Eoin Cody (Kilkenny)
- 7. TJ Reid (Kilkenny)
- 8. Gearoid Hegarty (Limerick)
- 9. Cian Lynch (Limerick)
- 10. Tom Morrissey (Limerick)
- 11. Aaron Gillane (Limerick)
- 12. Seamus Flanagan (Limerick)
- 13. Peter Casey (Limerick)
- 14. Jason Forde (Tipperary)
- 15. Stephen Bennett (Waterford)
- 16. Austin Gleeson (Waterford)
- 17. Dessie Hutchinson (Waterford)
- 18. Lee Chin (Wexford)
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Might as well just let John Kiely pick the All-Star team this year. He’s being doing it all season anyway…
Very strong case to be made for 12 of the Limerick team to make the All Stars this year. Only positions I can see that might be available to a non Limerick player is one in the full back line, one in mid field and one in the full forward line.
@Brian Prendergast: Question for me is what player from any other county would get to be a first choice player on that Limerick side.
@Brian Prendergast: maybe left corner back, don’t see how Dan Morrissey and Sean finn shouldn’t be picked they were brilliant.
@James Reardon: Barry Nash has been excellent all year , haven’t seen anyone better than him in this years championship.
@James Reardon: Unfortunately I think Barry Nash will miss out even though he hasn’t put a foot wrong all year and has been the second best corner back in the game. His range of passing and skill sets him apart from others imo and I can’t remember anyone cleaning him out. He will lose out as they won’t have 3 Limerick in the full back line IMO.
Hopefully will O Donoghue gets his this year.
@Alan Fitzgerald: that was my thinking too, 3 deserve it but I think they’ll only give it to 2.
Eoin Murphy should guarantee one for Kilkenny.
Harmidy befoe Kingston?