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RÉALTAÍ PHEIL NA mBAN TG4 LE LIDL 2024 A LL-Ireland Senior champions Kerry lead the way with seven representatives on the 2024 TG4 Ladies Football All- Star team. The annual selection was revealed at the annual TG4 All-Star awards banquet, in association with Lidl, at the Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday November 16. Kerry's seven winners are goalkeeper Ciara Butler, defenders Kayleigh Cronin and Aishling O'Connell, midfielder Anna Galvin, and forward trio Niamh Carmody, Danielle O'Leary and Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh. Cronin won the Player of the Match award for an outstanding performance against Galway in the 2024 TG4 All- Ireland Final at Croke Park on Sunday August 4, as Carmody captained the Kingdom to a first All-Ireland Senior title in 31 years. Runners-up Galway have been rewarded with four TG4 All-Star awards, namely defenders Kate Geraghty and Nicola Ward, midfielder and captain Ailbhe Davoren, and Olivia Divilly in the half-forward line. There are three All-Star awards for Armagh, the 2024 Lidl National 8 | PEIL ANNUAL 2024 | www.ladiesgaelic.ie League Division 1 winners and All- Ireland semi-finalists, with defenders Grace Ferguson and Lauren McConville acknowledged, along with forward Aoife McCoy. There's also recognition for Cork, who progressed to the TG4 All-Ireland semi-finals, with Katie Quirke named at full-forward. The team is comprised of no fewer than ten first-time award winners, as Butler, Ferguson, Geraghty, McConville, Galvin, Davoren, McCoy, Divilly, O'Leary and Quirke received maiden All-Star awards. Cronin, O'Connell and Ward picked up All-Star awards for the second time in their careers, Carmody is now a three-time winner, and for the third year in succession, while Ní Mhuircheartaigh picked up her fifth award, and third in-a-row. Carmody and Ní Mhuircheartaigh are the two players named on this year's selection who also featured on the 2023 TG4 All-Star team. Galway pair Ward and Divilly both hail from the Kilkerrin-Clonberne club in Galway, the current AIB All-Ireland Senior club champions. TG4 ALL-STAR AWARDS