Two Armagh players shortlisted for LGFA All-Stars

LAUREN McConville and Caroline O’Hanlon have been shortlisted for the 2025 TG4 All-Star Awards.

ALL-Ireland Senior Champions Dublin lead the way on the list of 45 nominations.

Runners-up Meath have ten players nominated, Lidl National League Division 1 Champions Kerry are next in line with seven, while Galway have six players nominated.

There are three Waterford nominees, two each for Armagh and Cork, and one apiece for Kildare, Mayo and Tipperary on the list compiled by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s All-Star committee.

Dublin captured a seventh TG4 All-Ireland Senior title, and their second in three seasons, with victory over Meath at Croke Park in the 2025 decider.

That success is reflected in a dozen TG4 All-Star nominees for the team joint-managed by Paul Casey and Derek Murray.

Goalkeeper Abby Shiels is nominated, along with defenders Jess Tobin, Leah Caffrey, Niamh Donlon, Sinéad Goldrick, Martha Byrne and Niamh Crowley.

Midfielder Éilish O’Dowd is also nominated, as well as forwards Carla Rowe, who captained Dublin to TG4 All-Ireland Senior glory, Hannah Tyrrell, winner of the ZuCar Golden Boot award as top scorer in the TG4 All-Ireland Championships, Niamh Hetherton and Kate Sullivan.

Meath’s ten nominees are goalkeeper Robyn Murray, defenders Áine Sheridan, Mary Kate Lynch, team captain Aoibhín Cleary and Sarah Wall, midfielder Marion Farrelly, and forwards Niamh Gallogly, Ciara Smyth, Emma Duggan and Vikki Wall.

The 2025 list of nominees also includes nine players who captured TG4 All-Star Awards in 2024, namely Galway quartet Kate Geraghty (team captain in 2025), Nicola Ward (2024 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year Award Winner), Ailbhe Davoren and Olivia Divilly, Kerry trio Aishling O’Connell, Anna Galvin and Danielle O’Leary, Armagh’s Lauren McConville and Cork’s Katie Quirke.

The other Kerry players nominated are goalkeeper Mary Ellen Bolger, defenders Eilís Lynch and Aoife Dillane, and free-scoring forward Síofra O’Shea.

Also earning nominations from Galway are Hannah Noone in defence and midfielder Louise Ward, both club-mates from AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Champions, Kilkerrin-Clonberne.

Waterford’s impressive 2025 campaign has been acknowledged with three All-Star nominees, namely captain Emma Murray at midfield, and forward pair Bríd McMaugh and Lauren McGregor.

From Armagh, McConville is joined on the list of nominees by long-serving midfielder Caroline O’Hanlon, while Cork have forward star Quirke and defender Melissa Duggan nominated.

The list is completed by Kildare defender and captain Laoise Lenehan, Mayo attacker Sinéad Walsh, and Tipperary forward Aishling Moloney.

On the 2025 TG4 All-Star team, one goalkeeper will be chosen from the shortlist of three, with three players selected from each of the full-back, half-back, half-forward and full-forward lines, along with two midfielders from the six nominated.

The 2025 TG4 All-Star team will be announced at a gala banquet at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday, November 15th.

The 2025 TG4 Junior, Intermediate and Senior Players’ Player of the Year Award winners will also be revealed on the night, while the 2025 inductee into the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) Hall of Fame will be acknowledged.

2025 TG4 All-Star Nominees:

Goalkeepers:

Robyn Murray (Meath), Abby Shiels (Dublin), Mary Ellen Bolger (Kerry).

Full back Line:

Jess Tobin (Dublin), Eilís Lynch (Kerry), Áine Sheridan (Meath), Mary Kate Lynch (Meath), Leah Caffrey (Dublin), Laoise Lenehan (Kildare), Melissa Duggan (Cork), Kate Geraghty (Galway), Niamh Donlon (Dublin).

Half Back Line:

Aoibhín Cleary (Meath), Sinéad Goldrick (Dublin), Aishling O’Connell (Kerry), Martha Byrne (Dublin), Nicola Ward (Galway)*, Sarah Wall (Meath), Hannah Noone (Galway), Niamh Crowley (Dublin), Aoife Dillane (Kerry).

Midfield:

Emma Murray (Waterford), Louise Ward (Galway), Éilish O’Dowd (Dublin), Anna Galvin (Kerry), Caroline O’Hanlon (Armagh), Marion Farrelly (Meath)

Half Forward Line:

Lauren McConville (Armagh), Sinéad Walsh (Mayo), Aishling Moloney (Tipperary), Carla Rowe (Dublin), Niamh Gallogly (Meath), Olivia Divilly (Galway), Ciara Smyth (Meath), Ailbhe Davoren (Galway), Bríd McMaugh (Waterford).

Full Forward Line:

Emma Duggan (Meath), Hannah Tyrrell (Dublin), Katie Quirke (Cork)*, Síofra O’Shea (Kerry), Vikki Wall (Meath), Niamh Hetherton (Dublin), Kate Sullivan (Dublin), Danielle O’Leary (Kerry), Lauren McGregor (Waterford).