Kilkerrin-Clonberne, Sarsfields sweep the boards at Club Awards
LADIES FOOTBALL & CAMOGIE CLUB TEAMS OF THE YEAR
KILKERRIN-CLONBERNE and Sarsfields swept the boards in ladies football and camogie respectively — with Louise Ward and Niamh McGrath winning the premier individual gongs — however Galway senior hurling champions Loughrea were surprisingly overlooked at last weekend's AIB-sponsored Club Player Awards.
In an historic first, the scheme celebrated the best players from club football, hurling, camogie and ladies football for 2024-'25 in a single ceremony at Croke Park on Friday evening, recognising their outstanding achievements throughout last season.
Louise Ward saw off competition from her Kilkerrin-Clonberne clubmate Eva Noone and Aoife Kane from Kilmacud Crokes to be named Club Player of the Year in ladies football.
Eight players were included in the standout XV from the North Galway club who captured the Dolores Tyrrell Cup for a fourth straight year. Louise was chosen along with her twin sister Nicola - the reigning Players' Player of the Year at inter-county level - as well as Sarah Gormally, Niamh Divilly, Hannah Noone, Aisling Madden, Olivia Divilly and Eva Noone.
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KILKERRIN-CLONBERNE ladies footballers, from left, Aisling Madden, Niamh Divilly, Sarah Gormally, Olivia Divilly, Nicola Ward, Hannah Noone, Louise Ward (Club Player of the Year) and Eva Noone with their 2024 Ladies Football Team of the Year awards during the AIB Club Player Awards at Croke Park on Friday.PHOTOS: SEB DALY | SPORTSFILE Seb Daly / SPORTSFILEImage 2 of 2
SARSFIELDS’ award winners: Tara Kenny, Niamh McGrath (Club Player of the Year), Maria Cooney, Klara Donohue and Caoimhe Kelly. Missing from photo: Siobhán McGrath, Laura Ward. Seb Daly / SPORTSFILELADIES FOOTBALL CLUB TEAM OF THE YEAR:
1. Dearbhla Gower (Kilmacud Crokes); 2. Eilís Lynch (Castleisland Desmonds), 3. Sarah Gormally (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 4. Niamh Divilly (Kilkerrin-Clonberne); 5. Aoife Kane (Kilmacud Crokes), 6. Nicola Ward (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 7. Hannah Noone (Kilkerrin-Clonberne); 8. Aisling Madden (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 9. Lauren Magee (Kilmacud Crokes); 10. Niamh Cotter (Kilmacud Crokes), 11. Louise Ward (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 12. Olivia Divilly (Kilkerrin-Clonberne); 13. Eva Noone (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 14. Niamh Murray (Clann Éireann), 15. Michelle Davoren (Kilmacud Crokes).
CAMOGIE CLUB TEAM OF THE YEAR:
1. Sophie Cullen (Truagh-Clonlara); 2. Sinéad Hogg (Truagh-Clonlara), 3. Laura Ward (Sarsfields), 4. Clare McKillop (Loughgiel Shamrocks); 5. Ellen Horgan (Truagh-Clonlara), 6. Maria Cooney (Sarsfields), 7. Tara Kenny (Sarsfields); 8. Niamh McGrath (Sarsfields), 9. Amy Boyle (Loughgiel Shamrocks); 10. Klara Donohue (Sarsfields), 11. Lucia McNaughton (Loughgiel Shamrocks), 12. Aine O'Loughlin (Truagh-Clonlara); 13. Eimear Kelly (Truagh-Clonlara), 14. Siobhán McGrath (Sarsfields), 15. Caoimhe Kelly (Sarsfields).