SEVEN PLAYERS FROM All-Ireland champions Tipperary and four from beaten finalists Kilkenny have been honoured in the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star hurling team.
There are two winners apiece from beaten All-Ireland semi-finalists in Galway and Waterford.
Kingpins Tipperary have winners in Cathal Barrett, James Barry, Ronan, Padraic and Patrick Maher, Seamus Callanan and John McGrath.
Kilkenny’s recipients are Eoin Murphy, Padraig Walsh, Walter Walsh and Richie Hogan.
Daithi and David Burke are honoured from Galway while Jamie Barron and Austin Gleeson are the successful players from Waterford.
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There are nine first-time winners in Murphy, Barrett, Barry, Padraig Walsh, Ronan Maher, Barron, Walter Walsh, Gleeson and John McGrath.
Padraic Maher and Richie Hogan both collect their fourth All-Star while it’s a third award for Seamus Callanan and David Burke. Patrick Maher and Daithi Burke both previously won one award.
There are four players from last year’s team again honoured in Hogan, Callanan and the Burke duo from Galway. Indeed it is the third successive year that sharphshooters Hogan and Callanan have claimed awards.
Ronan and Padraic Maher are the first Tipperary brothers to win All-Stars in the same year since Paul and Eoin Kelly achieved that feat in 2002.
Padraig Walsh follows in the footsteps of his older brother Tommy who won nine awards during his Kilkenny career, while John McGrath’s older brother is a two-time recipient.
2016 GAA/GPA All-Star Hurling Team of the Year
1. Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny) – First time winner
2. Cathal Barrett (Tipperary) – First time winner
3. James Barry (Tipperary) – First time winner
4. Daithi Burke (Galway) – Winner in 2015
5. Padraig Walsh (Kilkenny) – First time winner
6. Ronan Maher (Tipperary) – First time winner
7. Padraic Maher (Tipperary) – Winner in 2009, 2011 and 2014
8. Jamie Barron (Waterford) – First time winner
9. David Burke (Galway) – Winner in 2012 and 2015
10. Walter Walsh (Kilkenny) – First time winner
11. Austin Gleeson (Waterford) – First time winner
12. Patrick Maher (Tipperary) – Winner in 2014
13. Richie Hogan (Kilkenny) – Winner in 2011, 2014 and 2015
14. Seamus Callanan (Tipperary) – Winner in 2014 and 2015
15. John McGrath (Tipperary) – First time winner
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Much more enjoyable to watch the Turkey v. Ireland match. Lesser players but at least both teams got the ball down and played the game as it should be played. I’m a Bohs fan have to admit that Rovers probably would have deserved a draw.
@mar: Ya good game, thought the pitch was in exceptionally good condition, and Waterford have a couple of very cultured footballers like that French lad Hery and the Ghanaian chap.
Absolute joke of a second yellow for Gilchrist…. he fell over and ref gives him his marching orders. Rovers still looked like snatching a draw. Great game….. well played Waterford great for the league to have a newly promoted team up tbe table challenging (early days i know) better than the international game KOH
These are the nights we missed for all the years we were in First Division, a great crowd and brilliant result, Rovers looked very composed on the ball and probably deserved a draw but we will take it after heartbreak in Dundalk last week, Come On You Blues.
@Patrick Mc Cabe: Waterfod Albion ….3 lions on a shirt …..odious but hey its bread for the masses.
@Joe O’riordan: muppet
Hopefully Greg Bolger still isn’t whinging
@Aidan Holden: referee must have a head ache after the game
@Aidan Holden: Why do you think City offloaded him, apart from the fact he was’nt good enough to get in their first 11
Burke should have been playing against Turkey
Soccer has me puzzled this last while ! The fai coaches and mr doktor insists players take the ball from the back keep possession ,bring the mid field in to focus , set the forwards up for scoring ? Our international team hoof it long , don’t keep control of the ball , first touches don’t stick , and mid field are missing .
@Tricksy: Different levels. You could watch a reserves game and there would be some lovely touches and passes. But most international games are extremely competitive, tough and physical, just getting a cap is such an honour for footballers. You just don’t get the same time on the ball.
@Tricksy: I agree, also it’s only the senior international that hoofs the ball while from what I have seen the underage selections play proper football.
Need checks here . according to this article Duffus scored two goals after he had been sent off.