ALL-IRELAND WINNERS Meath lead the way with 14 nominations for the 2021 TG4 ladies football All-Star awards.

Meath have been rewarded for a remarkable season of successs as they landed the All-Ireland senior title just a year after their intermediate triumph.

Runners-up Dublin have received nine nominations with beaten semi-finalists Cork and Mayo getting seven and six players respectively. 

There are three nominees from Donegal, two each from Armagh and Galway, and one apiece from Kerry and Waterford.

The Dublin quartet of Martha Byrne, Jennifer Dunne, Carla Rowe and Lyndsey Davey, Cork duo Eimear Meaney and Melissa Duggan, and Armagh forward Aimee Mackin are all members of the 2020 team of the championship that have been nominated this year.

The 2021 TG4 All Star team will be announced at a gala banquet at Dublin’s Bonnington Hotel on Saturday 13 November. Junior, Intermediate and Senior Players’ Player of the Year award winners will also be announced on the night.

2021 TG4 All Star nominations:

Goalkeepers:

• Monica McGuirk (Meath), Ciara Trant (Dublin), Dearbhla Gower (Galway)

Right corner back:

• Emma Troy (Meath), Martha Byrne (Dublin), Saoirse Lally (Mayo)

Full back:

• Mary Kate Lynch (Meath), Róisín Phelan (Cork), Evelyn McGinley (Donegal)

Left corner back:

• Leah Caffrey (Dublin), Katie Newe (Meath), Eimear Meaney (Cork)

Right half back:

• Erika O’Shea (Cork), Tamara O’Connor (Mayo), Aoibheann Leahy (Meath)

Centre back:

• Aoibhín Cleary (Meath), Lauren McConville (Armagh), Nicole McLaughlin (Donegal)

Left half back:

• Melissa Duggan (Cork), Orlagh Nolan (Dublin), Shauna Ennis (Meath)

Midfield:

• Lauren Magee (Dublin), Jennifer Dunne (Dublin), Sinéad Cafferky (Mayo), Máire O’Shaughnessy (Meath), Hannah Looney (Cork), Orlagh Lally (Meath)

Right half forward:

• Hannah Tyrrell (Dublin), Olivia Divilly (Galway), Orla Byrne (Meath)

Centre forward:

• Rachel Kearns (Mayo), Lyndsey Davey (Dublin), Stacey Grimes (Meath)

Left half forward:

• Niamh O’Sullivan (Meath), Carla Rowe (Dublin), Sarah Rowe (Mayo)

Right corner forward:

• Aimee Mackin (Armagh), Vikki Wall (Meath), Sadhbh O’Leary (Cork)

Full forward:

• Emma Duggan (Meath), Shauna Howley (Mayo), Katie Murray (Waterford)

Left corner forward:

• Eimear Scally (Cork), Geraldine McLaughlin (Donegal), Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh (Kerry)

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