Eleanor Ryan-Doyle has won the SSE Airtricity Women's National League Player of the Month award for May after notching seven goals.
The Dubliner has been a key player in helping Peamount United occupy top spot in the table following an unbeaten start to the 2021 season.
"Winning the Player of the Month, I'm delighted. It's obviously an individual award but you can't really play a team sport and be individual so obviously the girls have helped me to get this," said Ryan-Doyle.
"I'm really delighted about it but we need to push on and win team awards as well. Can we go unbeaten? It's hard to do. I think it's something that we looked at last year but Wexford beat us in the League. I think this season we can go on and do it but we need to take one game at a time."
Included in the WNL Team of the Season on three occasions, Ryan-Doyle is rapidly heading towards a fourth selection should she maintain her form going into the second half of the season.
She currently leads the Golden Boot race with 10 goals overall - having leapfrogged April Player of the Month Rachel Kearns.
If she requires any inspiration in that quest she does not need to travel far to find the perfect role model in team-mate Áine O'Gorman, who claimed the award last season.
"Áine is a great player and she is someone that I obviously look up to. She has some experience with Ireland and playing overseas as well, so I think it's a player that I look up to and who drives me in each match and every season," she said.
"Whoever scores it doesn't really matter who scores once we get the goals and the clean sheets. I think it's important that we continue playing well, scoring the goals and progressing on from there."
Ryan-Doyle finished top of the voting process ahead of Wexford Youths' Ciara Rossiter and Athlone Town's Muireann Devaney.
