Two Mayo players pick up their first TG4 All-Star Awards

Mayo players Shauna Howley and Danielle Caldwell picked up their first TG4 All-Star Awards

as the final selection of 15 was revealed in a banquet at The Bonnington Hotel, Dublin, yesterday evening (Saturday).

Danielle (Castlebar Mitchels) and Shauna (Knockmore) are named at left full-back and left half-forward respectively in the 2022 TG4 Ladies Football All-Star team.

All-Ireland senior champions Meath lead the way with six representatives on the team, meanwhile.

Goalkeeper Monica McGuirk claimed a third award and she’s one of four Meath players honoured for a second successive year alongside Emma Troy, Aoibhín Cleary and Emma Duggan.

Team captain Shauna Ennis and Stacey Grimes are the Meath players who are crowned TG4 All-Stars for the very first time.

Meath lifted the TG4 All-Ireland senior title on July 31 for a second successive year, while the Royal County also claimed a maiden Lidl National League Division 1 crown in 2022.

TG4 All-Ireland senior runners-up Kerry have claimed five TG4 All-Star awards. Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh, leading scorer in the TG4 All-Ireland senior championship with 4-24, collected her third TG4 All-Star award, and first since 2013, while Cáit Lynch bridged a 10-year gap by earning her second award. Lynch was named at right corner back in 2012 and earned one of the midfield slots on the 2022 selection.

The Kerry players named as TG4 All-Stars for the first time are Kayleigh Cronin, Aishling O’Connell and Niamh Carmody.

As well as contesting a first TG4 All-Ireland senior final since 2012, Kerry also landed the 2022 Lidl National League Division 2 title and will play in the top flight next year.

Elsewhere, there’s a third All-Star Award for Armagh forward Aimee Mackin, while Donegal captain and midfield dynamo Niamh McLaughlin is also a first-time All-Star recipient.

Meath quartet McGuirk, Troy, Cleary and Duggan are the four survivors from the 2021 TG4 All-Star team as the 2022 selection contains eight first-time winners.

The 2022 TG4 Ladies Football All-Star team in full is: Monica McGuirk (Meath); Shauna Ennis (Meath), Kayleigh Cronin (Kerry), Danielle Caldwell (Mayo); Aishling O’Connell (Kerry), Emma Troy (Meath), Aoibhín Cleary (Meath); Cáit Lynch (Kerry), Niamh McLaughlin (Donegal);

Niamh Carmody (Kerry), Emma Duggan (Meath), Shauna Howley (Mayo); Aimee Mackin (Armagh), Stacey Grimes (Meath), Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh.