Cork gain five All Star awards on PwC GAA/GPA All Star Hurling Team

 

The PwC GAA/GPA All Star Hurling awards 2024, were announced at the RDS in Dublin on Friday 1st November, 140 years to the day in which seven men gathered in a billiard room in Hayes Hotel in Thurles to set the seeds from which the GAA was formed.

Cork had ten nominations for this years awards, and picked up five in total as follows;

Eoin Downey (Glen Rovers), Robert Downey (Glen Rovers), Darragh Fitzgibbon (Charleville), Shane Barrett (Blarney) and Seamus Harnedy (St Ita’s).

The Downey brothers follow in the footsteps of Ben & Jerry O’Connor in 2005. Darragh Fitzgibbon collected his second award having previously been selected in 2018, while Seamus Harnedy made it a hattrick of awards having previously been selected in 2013 & 2018.

Those to miss out were Patrick Collins (Ballinhassig), Ciarán Joyce (Castlemartyr), Tim O’Mahony (Newtownshandrum), Patrick Horgan (Glen Rovers) and Brian Hayes (St Finbarrs).