The nominees have been announced for the 2019 TG4 Players’ Player of the year awards in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior grades.
The winners will be revealed at the 2019 TG4 All-Star Awards Banquet, in association with Lidl, which will be held at the Citywest Hotel on Saturday, November 16.
There are two Dublin players in the running for the Senior award, as six-time TG4 All Star Sinéad Goldrick and Siobhán McGrath, who’s won three All Stars, have been nominated for the prestigious individual accolade alongside Galway’s Louise Ward.
Goldrick and McGrath were named in the 2018 TG4 All Star team, while Goldrick, who scored a crucial goal for Dublin in the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Final victory over Galway as the Sky Blues claimed three-in-a-row, is a previous Senior Players’ Player of the Year nominee from 2012.
McGrath and Ward are both nominated for the Senior Players’ Player of the Year award for the first time.
All three Senior Players’ Player of the Year nominees have also been nominated for TG4 All Star awards.
After producing a Player of the Match display in the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Final, Aishling Moloney is nominated for a Players’ Player of the Year award in this grade.
Moloney, who was also nominated for the Intermediate award in 2017, is joined on the three-player shortlist by Tipperary colleague Orla O’Dwyer, and Meath goalkeeper Monica McGuirk.
Moloney and McGuirk are also nominated for TG4 All Star awards.
In the Junior grade, Louth’s TG4 All-Ireland winning captain Kate Flood could be collecting a third Players’ Player of the Year award.
Flood, a winner in 2015 and 2018, is nominated again after lifting the West County Hotel for the Wee County at Croke Park on September 15.
Flood produced a Player of the Match display in the Final victory over Fermanagh but she faces stiff opposition in the race to be crowned TG4 Junior Players’ Player of the Year.
Fermanagh’s prolific young forward Eimear Smyth, who was The Croke Park/LGFA Player of the Month for April, is also nominated, as is Hannah Noonan, a former Dublin player who enjoyed an excellent season for beaten All-Ireland semi-finalists London.
The nominees in all three categories have all been selected by their fellow players, who could not vote for their own team-mates.
TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year Award Nominees
Sinéad Goldrick (Dublin)
Siobhán McGrath (Dublin)
Louise Ward (Galway)*
TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year Award Nominees
Monica McGuirk (Meath)
Aishling Moloney (Tipperary)
Orla O’Dwyer (Tipperary)
TG4 Junior Players’ Player of the Year Award Nominees
Kate Flood (Louth)
Hannah Noonan (London)
Eimear Smyth (Fermanagh)
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