13 All-star nominations for Meath Ladies
Meath have received 13 nominations for the 2022 TG4 Ladies Fiootball All-stars with all eight of last year's winners once again nominated.
The two players from the regular starting 15 who are desperately unlucky to miss out on a nomination are Katie Newe and Megan Thynne with Kelsey Nesbitt a first time nominee from the Royal county.
It looks have if the All-star selection committee have taken on board the advice given in Fergal Lynch's We'll leave it there column from a few weeks ago and have proposed their nominations differently this year.
Instead of three players being nominated for each of the 15 individual positions on the field, the organisers have gone with nine nominees for each line on field with thye exceptions of goalkeeper Monica McGuirk is amongst three players nominated and midfield where both Orlagh Lally and Maire O'Shaughnessy are on the six-player short list.
Meath collected a second successive TG4 All-Ireland Senior title with victory over Kerry in the Croke Park Final on July 31, a victory which completed a brilliant ‘double’, following their victory in the Lidl National League Division 1 Final against Donegal in April.
Kerry have received 11 nominations following a campaign that also saw the Kingdom contest a TG4 Munster Senior Final, while they were crowned Lidl National League Division 2 champions.
Donegal, who contested the Lidl National League Division 1 Final before reaching the last four of the All-Ireland series, have six players nominated, while there five nominees from Mayo, who also contested a TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final.
There are four nominations for TG4 Ulster Senior champions Armagh, who were runners-up in the Lidl National League Division 2 Final, while Dublin and Cork earn two nominations each.
The list is completed by a nomination each for TG4 Connacht Senior champions Galway and Laois, who landed the TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate title in 2022.
Ten players from the 2021 TG4 All Star team are nominated for awards again, including eight Meath stars who were honoured last year.
Monica McGuirk, a two-time recipient, is joined on the long list by fellow 2021 TG4 All Star winners Mary Kate Lynch, Aoibhín Cleary, Emma Troy, Máire O’Shaughnessy, Emma Duggan, Vikki Wall, the 2021 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year, and Niamh O’Sullivan, who was player of the match in the 2022 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Final.
The other Meath nominees are team captain Shauna Ennis, Aoibheann Leahy, Orlagh Lally, Kelsey Nesbitt and Stacey Grimes.
The 2022 TG4 All Star team will be announced at a gala banquet at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday, November 19.
2022 TG4 All Star nominees:
Goalkeepers
Anna Carr - Armagh
Ciara Butler - Kerry
Monica McGuirk – Meath*
Full Back Line
Róisín Phelan - Cork
Evelyn McGinley - Donegal
Tanya Kennedy - Donegal
Leah Caffrey – Dublin*
Eilís Lynch - Kerry
Kayleigh Cronin - Kerry
Danielle Caldwell - Mayo
Mary Kate Lynch – Meath*
Shauna Ennis - Meath
Half Back Line
Lauren McConville - Armagh
Nicole McLaughlin - Donegal
Nicola Ward - Galway
Aishling O’Connell - Kerry
Emma Costello - Kerry
Kathryn Sullivan - Mayo
Aoibhín Cleary – Meath*
Aoibheann Leahy - Meath
Emma Troy – Meath*
Midfield
Niamh McLaughlin - Donegal
Cáit Lynch - Kerry
Lorraine Scanlon - Kerry
Sinéad Cafferky - Mayo
Máire O’Shaughnessy – Meath*
Orlagh Lally - Meath
Half Forward Line
Niamh Hegarty - Donegal
Carla Rowe - Dublin
Anna Galvin - Kerry
Niamh Carmody - Kerry
Síofra O’Shea - Kerry
Shauna Howley - Mayo
Emma Duggan – Meath*
Kelsey Nesbitt - Meath
Vikki Wall – Meath*
Full Forward Line
Aimee Mackin - Armagh
Aoife McCoy - Armagh
Doireann O’Sullivan - Cork
Geraldine McLaughlin – Donegal*
Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh - Kerry
Mo Nerney - Laois
Lisa Cafferky - Mayo
Stacey Grimes - Meath
Niamh O’Sullivan -Meath*
*denotes 2021 TG4 All Star
County by county breakdown:
Meath 13, Kerry 11, Donegal 6, Mayo 5, Armagh 4, Dublin 2, Cork 2, Galway 1, Laois 1.