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Nine Counties Feature As Limerick Dominate PwC Hurling All-Star Nominations

Nine Counties Feature As Limerick Dominate PwC Hurling All-Star Nominations
PJ Browne
By PJ Browne
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All-Ireland champions Limerick have had 15 players nominated for PwC All-Star hurling awards. In all, nine counties are represented on this year's list.

Limerick dominated the hurling championship this year as the county retained their title with victory over Cork in the final.

Nickie Quaid, Eoin Murphy and Patrick Collins are the trio contesting the goalkeeping award.

In defence, the 18 nominees are from Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Clare.

The six midfield nominees include the high scoring Laois player Paddy Purcell.

Dublin wing forward and captain Danny Sutcliffe and Wexford captain Lee Chin are their counties sole representatives in a star-studded list of 18 forwards.

The full county breakdown for the hurling nominations is Limerick 15, Cork nine, Waterford seven, Kilkenny five, three each for Clare and Tipperary and one each for Dublin, Laois and Wexford.

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2021 PwC All-Stars Hurling nominations

Goalkeepers

Patrick Collins (Cork)

Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny)

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Nickie Quaid (Limerick)

Defenders

Seán Finn, Dan Morrissey, Barry Nash, Diarmaid Byrnes, Kyle Hayes, Declan Hannon (all Limerick)

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Tim O’Mahony, Seán O’Donoghue, Mark Coleman, Robert Downey (all Cork)

Calum Lyons, Kieran Bennett, Conor Prunty (all Waterford)

Huw Lalor, Paddy Deegan (all Kilkenny)

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Cathal Barrett, Ronan Maher (all Tipperary)

Rory Hayes (Clare)

Midfielders

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Will O’Donoghue, Darragh O’Donovan (all Limerick)

Cathal Malone, Tony Kelly (all Clare)

Jamie Barron (Waterford)

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Paddy Purcell (Laois)

Forwards

Gearóid Hegarty, Cian Lynch, Tom Morrissey, Peter Casey, Seamus Flanagan, Aaron Gillane (all Limerick)

Seamus Harnedy, Patrick Horgan, Shane Kingston, Jack O’Connor (all Cork)

Stephen Bennett, Austin Gleeson, Dessie Hutchinson (all Waterford)

Eoin Cody, TJ Reid (Kilkenny)

Danny Sutcliffe (Dublin)

Jason Forde (Tipperary)

Lee Chin (Wexford)

The PwC All-Star nominations in football will be released on Friday. The presentation of the PwC All-Star awards will take place on December 10 in a televised ceremony.

Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

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