THERE are three All-Star awards for Armagh, the 2024 Lidl National League Division 1 winners and All-Ireland semi-finalists, with defenders Grace Ferguson and Lauren McConville acknowledged, along with forward Aoife McCoy on the 2024 TG4 Ladies Football All-Star team. All-Ireland Senior champions Kerry lead the way with seven representatives.
The annual selection was revealed on Saturday night at the annual TG4 All-Star awards banquet, in association with Lidl, as the Bonnington Dublin Hotel.
Kerry’s seven winners are goalkeeper Ciara Butler, defenders Kayleigh Cronin and Aishling O’Connell, midfielder Anna Galvin, and forward trio Niamh Carmody, Danielle O’Leary and Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh.
Cronin won the Player of the Match award for an outstanding performance against Galway in the 2024 TG4 All-Ireland Final at Croke Park on Sunday August 4, as Carmody captained the Kingdom to a first All-Ireland Senior title in 31 years.
Runners-up Galway have been rewarded with four TG4 All-Star awards, namely defenders Kate Geraghty and Nicola Ward, midfielder and captain Ailbhe Davoren, and Olivia Divilly in the half-forward line.
There’s also recognition for Cork, who progressed to the TG4 All-Ireland semi-finals, with Katie Quirke named at full-forward.
The team is comprised of no fewer than ten first-time award winners, as Butler, Ferguson, Geraghty, McConville, Galvin, Davoren, McCoy, Divilly, O’Leary and Quirke received maiden All-Star awards.
Cronin, O’Connell and Ward picked up All-Star awards for the second time in their careers, Carmody is now a three-time winner, and for the third year in succession, while Ní Mhuircheartaigh picked up her fifth award, and third in-a-row.
Carmody and Ní Mhuircheartaigh are the two players named on this year’s selection who also featured on the 2023 TG4 All-Star team.
Galway pair Ward and Divilly both hail from the Kilkerrin-Clonberne club in Galway, the current AIB All-Ireland Senior club champions.
2024 TG4 Ladies Football All-Star team
- Ciara Butler (Kerry) – 1st award
- Grace Ferguson (Armagh) – 1st award
- Kayleigh Cronin (Kerry) – 2nd award (previous winner in 2022)
- Kate Geraghty (Galway) – 1st award
- Aishling O’Connell (Kerry) – 2nd award (previous winner in 2022)
- Nicola Ward (Galway) – 2nd award (previous winner in 2019)
- Lauren McConville (Armagh) – 1st award
- Anna Galvin (Kerry) – 1st award
- Ailbhe Davoren (Galway) – 1st award
- Niamh Carmody (Kerry) – 3rd award (previous winner in 2022 and 2023)
- Aoife McCoy (Armagh) – 1st award
- Olivia Divilly (Galway) – 1st award
- Danielle O’Leary (Kerry) – 1st award
- Katie Quirke (Cork) – 1st award
- Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh (Kerry) – 5th award (previous in 2012, 2013, 2022 and 2023)
County by county breakdown: Kerry 7, Galway 4, Armagh 3, Cork 1.
