Following our team of the best footballers never to win an All-Star, here are their hurling counterparts.
Remember this is the best hurlers 'never to win an All-Star', not 'never to win an All-Ireland' so don't be suggesting Ollie Canning or Gary Kirby in the comments.
The team was picked in conjunction with a few wise men including most notably Paddy Power sports trader Paddy Aherne.
1. James McGarry - Goalkeeper
Like every other Kilkenny player in the Brian Cody era, he is weighed down with all the All-Ireland medals he has to lug around. However, he was consistently elbowed out of the running for an All-Star by other louder and busier contenders.
2. Shane O'Neill - Right corner back
He emerged into a team that had won it's second All-Ireland and was shortly to get bogged down in in-fighting. After a few years of quiet, Cork have re-emerged under JBM and O'Neill has been an important part. Domhnaill O'Donovan prevented the first All-Ireland win in 2013 and the all-star has yet to arrive.
3. Donal O'Grady - Full back
More renowned at this stage as a manager, O'Grady only made his inter-county debut in his late 20s. He jammed a great deal of success into his short inter-county career, it being a fairly rich period for Cork. Three Munster titles in '82, '83 and '84 and an All-Ireland winners medal in the last of those years.
Having picked up an All-Ireland medal, O'Grady quit the scene in his early 30s. He doesn't believe in hanging around once All-Irelands are won.
4. Keith Rossiter - Right corner back
Shocked Wexford supporters by retiring a couple of weeks ago, Rossiter has been one of Wexford's most important players over the past eleven years. Made his debut in 2003 as Wexford almost toppled Cork in the All-Ireland semi-final. The following year, he picked up a Leinster title. Enjoyed one of his best seasons during Wexford's renaissance last year.
5. Stephen Hiney - Right half back
Superb defender (more often at wing back) whose career was often interrupted by injury, Hiney began his career with Dublin in the wilderness, captained them throughout the early Anthony Daly years, and remained influential on the team which claimed the Leinster title in 2013. Forced to retire in past couple of months.
6. Stephen Frampton - Centre back
Soldiered for Waterford during the long, dark 1990s, a decade in which Waterford won just four championship matches, Frampton was an ever present until the early 2000s. He quit in the spring of 2002. Waterford claimed their first Munster title a couple of months later. A mountain of club success with Ballygunner was decent compensation however.
7. Gerry McInerney - Left half back
One of the most scandalous omissions. It is impossible not to conclude he wasn't considered just too cool for the All-Stars, with his flowing hair, his white boots, his tanned legs and his American lifestyle.
The selectors evidently felt that landing back in the country in August to play two hurling matches (even if they were both in Croke Park) before shooting off again did not All-Star make. A more liberal, hang-loose Ireland would have made sure Gerry Mac would have gotten his All-Star.
8. Teddy McCarthy - Midfield
In the glorious summer of 1990, Teddy McCarthy did something no player has done before or since - win All-Irelands on two different Sundays in September.
In neither hurling nor football, did he win an All-Star for his efforts that year. He did win one for football the previous year but zilch in hurling, despite an illustrious career which saw him win All-Ireland titles in 1986 and 1990.
9. Tom Kenny - Midfield
A stunning omission, Kenny versatility, which saw him shifted between the half back line and midfield during the glory years, probably accounted for him being overlooked for an All-Star. The selectors evidently deciding that picking Sean Óg O Hailpin every year was enough Cork wing backs to be going on with. Operated at midfield for the two All-Ireland victories in 2004 and 2005.
10. Conal Keaney - Right half forward
A massively important figure in the ascension of Dublin hurling in recent years, Keaney committed himself to the hurlers in 2011, and has won a National League and a Leinster title in the intervening years.
11. Donal O'Grady - Centre half forward
Been around a while now but no All-Star. Scored 0-2 in the 2007 All-Ireland final and captained Limerick to the Munster title in 2013. At 34, time is running out for either an All-Ireland or that All-star but Limerick are coming good fast.
12. Colin Ryan - Left half forward
Clare's free-taker supreme wasn't rewarded with an All-Star at the end of 2013. He made his senior debut as a nineteen year old in 2007 during Tony Considine's chaotic period as the numero uno in Clare. Was influential in the first U21 title in 2009.
13. Aidan Fogarty - Right corner forward
Man of the Match in the 2006 All-Ireland final and a pile of Celtic Crosses afterwards. While he may have a cut of Waterford Crystal from the night of the All-Ireland, he has never received any shimmering glass at the All-Stars ceremony. Retired after last year's championship.
14. Liam Watson - Full forward
An All-Ireland club winner and Antrim's most noted forward in the 2000s, he earned an All-Star nomination in 2010 after helping Antrim to a shock win over Dublin.
His performance against Cork in the quarter-final showed both sides of Watson. He hit six points from play but was sent off for ripping John Gardiner's helmet off and kicking it away after it hit the ground. Red card. Also, he seems to fall out with the Antrim management team (whoever they happen to be) every other year.
15. Barry Foley - Left corner forward
A late arriver to one of the unluckiest teams in the whole history of bad luck. The Limerick team of 1994 had that year's All-Ireland packed away, almost sealed and signed before everything turned upside down in the last five minutes. Then Wexford squeezed past them in a crap match in 1996. Foley rose above the crapness and hit 0-4 but Wexford eked out a victory. A National League victory the following year preceded a long period in the wilderness.
Honourable mentions:
Dotsy O'Callaghan, Seamus Prendergast, Fergal Healy, Mike Nash, Declan Nash, Brian Carroll, Niall Rigney, Mike Galligan, John Conlon, John O'Brien, Liam Burke, Fergie Touhy
See also: The Best Footballers Who Have Never Won An All-Star XV
See also: The So-Called Weaker Counties All-Star XV
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