All-Ireland senior champions Dublin lead the way in terms of nominations for the coveted 2025 TG4 All-Star Awards, with 12 nominees in the 45-player long list.
The Sky Blues won the Brendan Martin Cup at Croke Park in August with a resounding 2-16 to 0-10 win over provincial rivals Meath, who have 10 players nominated.
Division 1 champions Kerry are next in line with seven nominees, 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 All-Ireland title this year, their second in three seasons, and 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 the side, and Hannah Tyrrell, Niamh Hetherton and Kate Sullivan.
Meath’s 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 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 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.
The 2025 TG4 All-Star team will be announced at a gala banquet at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday, 15 November.
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.
