12 DUBLIN PLAYERS have been nominated for the 2013 GAA/GPA Allstar football awards.
Jim Gavin’s All-Ireland title winning side lead the way on the nominations list for the Opel-sponsored awards.
Beaten All-Ireland finalists Mayo have ten nominations and Ulster champions Monaghan have six nominees. All-Ireland semi-finalists Kerry and Tyrone have five and four nominations respectively.
Cavan are rewarded for their memorable run through the qualifiers with three nominations while Cork, London, Galway, Meath and Donegal all have one nomination each.
The Footballer of the Year award will be contested by Stephen Cluxton, Michael Darragh Macauley and Lee Keegan. While the Young Footballer of the Year award will be a battle between Dublin duo Jack McCaffrey and Paul Mannion, and Mayo’s Cillian O’Connor.
There are only five members of last year’s Allstar selection nominated on this occasion – Mayo trio Keith Higgins, Lee Keegan and Ger Cafferkey, Donegal’s Colm McFadden and Dublin’s Paul Flynn.
Dublin’s Stephen Cluxton
Pic: INPHO/Donall Farmer
While the other players in the nominations list that have won Allstars are Cluxton, Macauley, Bernard Brogan, Conor Gormley, Sean Cavanagh, Marc O Sé and Colm Cooper.
Interesting inclusions on the list include former Cavan player Lorcan Mulvey who is the first London player ever to be nominated for an Allstar and former Antrim player James Loughrey who is now in action for Cork.
The nominations list in full is:
Goalkeepers: Stephen Cluxton (Dublin), Rob Hennelly (Mayo), Rory Beggan (Monaghan).
Full-backs: Rory O’Carroll (Dublin), Colin Walshe (Monaghan), Keith Higgins (Mayo), Chris Barrett (Mayo), Ger Cafferkey (Mayo), Drew Wylie (Monaghan), Cathal McCarron (Tyrone), Killian Clarke (Cavan), Marc O Se (Kerry).
Half-backs: Colm Boyle (Mayo), Conor Gormley (Tyrone), Lee Keegan (Mayo), Cian O’Sullivan (Dublin), Donal Vaughan (Mayo), James McCarthy (Dublin), Jack McCaffrey (Dublin), Dessie Mone (Monaghan), James Loughrey (Cork).
Midfield: Michael Darragh Macauley (Dublin), Aidan O’Shea (Mayo), Seamus O’Shea (Mayo), Darren Hughes (Monaghan), Anthony Maher (Kerry), Paul Conroy (Galway).
Half-forwards: Sean Cavanagh (Tyrone), Colm Cooper (Kerry), Cian Mackey (Cavan), Paul Flynn (Dublin), Diarmuid Connolly (Dublin), Donnchadh Walsh (Kerry), Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin), Matthew Donnelly (Tyrone), Lorcan Mulvey (London).
Full-forwards: Bernard Brogan (Dublin), James O’Donoghue (Kerry), Martin Dunne (Cavan), Paul Mannion (Dublin), Conor McManus (Monaghan), Cillian O’Connor (Mayo), Mickey Newman (Meath), Paddy Andrews (Dublin), Colm McFadden (Donegal).
