There was a great night last Friday with over 250 Players, Coaches, Friends and Family from the Women section gathering for the Annual Awards Night.

Jessie Kane in Football and Maria Buckley in Camogie won the Senior Player of the Year Awards, and there was plenty to celebrate with the Junior E and Senior B Championship Winning Teams celebrated on stage, recognition of Jess Tobin’s LGFA All Star Award, her, Martha Byrne and Rachel Hartnett’s All Ireland triumph, and a glowing tribute from JP Byrne to Donal Murphy who is stepping away from management of the Senior Camogie team.

Rob Hartnett and Angi Crispe kept things rolling through the presentations, and hats off to Dermot Malone, as ever, who puts in a massive amount of work to pull the night together.

Aside from the two Senior Awards for Jessie and Maria, there were individual awards from across the 12 teams fielded at Senior and Minor level for Ciara Dunee, Eva O’Grady, Nia Kennedy, Ella O’Donoghue, Tara Leahy, Sinead Nolan, Cara Sullivan, Sophie Nash, Chloe Delaney, Aislynn Moylan, Evanne Tobin, Anna Healy, Abbie Kenny, Arabella Lyster, Daisy Kirkwood, Aislynn Kelly Gallagher, Róise Reddin, Zoe Kearney and Maria McDonagh, and a special new Young Volunteer Award that was presented to Sophie Byrne.

With thanks to all involved in organising such a fantastic celebration of the Women’s section.