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12 | WINTER 2019 | www.ladiesgaelic.ie 2019 All Star Team TG4 LADIES FOOTBALL A ll-Ireland Senior Champions Dublin were the biggest winners at the Citywest Hotel, with seven representatives on the 2019 TG4 All Star Ladies Football team. Dublin's Sinéad Goldrick won a seventh All-Star award in eight years, and team- mate Lyndsey Davey, who was Player of the Match against Galway in the 2019 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship Final, collected her fifth award. Galway were represented well with four players receiving awards; defender Sinéad Burke, forward Tracey Leonard and twin sisters Nicola and Louise Ward. Nicola and Louise are the first set of twin sisters named in an All Star team since Waterford's O'Ryan twins, Martina and Geraldine, back in 1992. It's also the third successive year that sisters are named on an All Star selection as the Hegartys from Donegal, Ciara and Niamh, were listed on the 2017 team, while the O'Sullivans from Cork, Ciara and Doireann, were honoured in 2018. There are nine first-time winners on the 2019 TG4 All Star team, including Dublin's Niamh Collins, Olwen Carey and Niamh McEvoy. Monica McGuirk earns the goalkeeping spot for her exploits with Meath, who contested the TG4 All- Ireland Intermediate Final, and it's also a first All Star for the Royal County since 2011, when another goalkeeper, Irene Munnelly, was honoured. The other first-time All Star recipients are Melissa Duggan (Cork), the aforementioned Ward sisters, Tracey Leonard, the Galway captain, and Mayo's Rachel Kearns. Also on the night, Mayo star Niamh Kelly won the TG4 'Score of the Season' award for her stunning goal against Galway in the 2019 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final at Croke Park.