His Dad’s suit is a fine fit for him.
I heard that the players who were nominated for an all star but didn’t win one were made watch the reception on a big screen in a separate room in croker… also there was no meal at this banquet !!..anyone else hear the same?..fuckin joke if true
Was this not just for those people who paid 35 euro for the after party tickets?
[SIZE=5] There was considerable disappointment in [U]Croke Park[/U] on Friday night when several All Star hurling nominees – including from All-Ireland finalists Clare and Cork – were left without seats for the televised awards ceremony.[/SIZE]
“It was very badly organised and very unfair on those who had travelled a long way just for the event,” one hurler told the Sunday Independent.
“It would have been nice to sit with the other lads, but when we went into the room there were no seats for us. We stood at the back for a while and then left. We watched it on a television in a function room.”
Along with a lack of seats for the country’s biggest GAA stars, it appears that there was a shortage of food for players, most of whom were hanging around for over six hours. Many of the players who won prestigious All Star awards had to return to their hotels to order room service after the ceremony.
The GAA’s coffers had been boosted for a second year running by over €3m thanks to another drawn hurling final, and there was considerable disappointment on Friday night that players who made the summer such a success and spent hours at Friday night’s function were only treated to finger food, mini burgers, fish and chips and nachos.
"I barely saw any food going around, we were in [U][B]Croke Park[/B][/U] all evening and we pretty much got nothing to eat. Everyone was starving," said one frustrated award winner who was forced to order room service.
“We put in so much work all year, not just in training and matches but also our diets and then we have to eat that kind of food. A lot of us still have big games coming up for our clubs so we just didn’t eat the food that they served.”
However, before the televised part of the awards a meal was served in Croke Park for 250 invitees, mostly corporate guests.
The GAA GPA All Stars presentation is always one of the highlights of the Gaelic games calendar but on Friday it descended into a farce for many of those who had travelled a long way to attend the event. “We were really looking forward to this event, I got a new dress, got my hair done, bought a ticket, paid for travel and hotel. Then we were served fish and chips and there wasn’t even anywhere to eat them. We were standing around in our finery, trying to hold drinks, bags and eat food,” said the mother of one nominee.
Another mother of a nominee complained that she had to pay for her finger food after the awards show had just finished.
However, Alan Milton, head of media relations with the GAA, said yesterday that neither the GAA nor GPA were aware of any players being “discommoded” for the televised part of what he described as “the All Stars banquet”.
“This was the first year of an overhauled banquet and players were fed in casual surroundings before the television show – a departure from the long-standing practice of previous years,” added Milton. "No grievances were expressed to either the GAA or the GPA regarding this format.
"The event as a whole will be reviewed in full in the coming weeks to ensure the experiences of this year’s banquet are brought to bear on the organisation of what we hope will be a similarly successful event in 2014
That’s Shane O Donnell’s bird lads… she is in the facebook thread down the board.
As @Bad Winner has alluded to, a concerned TFK resident contacted me anonymously to confirm that Sutcliffe’s 2012 and 2013 dates are TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN. It seems that the photo agency and/or newspaper that provided the captions didn’t bother finding the 2013 version’s name and lazily referred to last year’s photo and ran with that lady’s name in error. In short, TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN.
Yes, I thought this Michelle Mooney character had undergone plastic surgery.
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[I]"In previous years, a banquet was held for all attendees after the live television show but after a consultation with the players, they opted for a change in format.
Croke Park also staged the All Stars for the first time – the Dublin Convention Centre and the Citywest hotel had previously been used."[/I]
Goalkeepers
- Stephen Cluxton (Dublin)
- Graham Brody (Laois)
- Rory Beggan (Monaghan)
Defenders
- Eoghan Bán Gallagher (Donegal)
- Jonny Cooper (Dublin)
- Jack McCaffrey (Dublin)
- Eoin Murchan (Dublin)
- James McCarthy (Dublin)
- Che Cullen (Fermanagh)
- Sean Kelly (Galway)
- Eoghan Kerin (Galway)
- Sean Andy Ó Ceallaigh (Galway)
- Gavin White (Kerry)
- Eoin Doyle (Kildare)
- Karl O’Connell (Monaghan)
- Drew Wylie (Monaghan)
- Ryan Wylie (Monaghan)
- Padraig Hampsey (Tyrone)
- Michael McKernan (Tyrone)
- Tiernan McCann (Tyrone)
- Peter Harte (Tyrone)
Midfielders
- Michael Murphy (Donegal)
- Brian Fenton (Dublin)
- Thomas Flynn (Galway)
- Niall Kearns (Monaghan)
- Colm Cavanagh (Tyrone)
- Mattie Donnelly (Tyrone)
Forwards
- Rory Grugan (Armagh)
- Paul Broderick (Carlow)
- Ryan McHugh (Donegal)
- Niall Scully (Dublin)
- Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin)
- Brian Howard (Dublin)
- Paul Mannion (Dublin)
- Dean Rock (Dublin)
- Con O’Callaghan (Dublin)
- Shane Walsh (Galway)
- Damien Comer (Galway)
- Ian Burke (Galway)
- David Clifford (Kerry)
- Daniel Flynn (Kildare)
- Paul Cribben (Kildare)
- Conor McManus (Monaghan)
- Ryan McAnespie (Monaghan)
- Niall Sludden (Tyrone)
Murphy, Sean Kelly, Broderick and Grugan are strange choices.
McAliskey was surely deserving of a nomination.
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Some bizarre positioning choices there.
Harte played more forward than back
Murphy spent a huge amount of time full forward
Ryan Wylie made a number of glaring errors in games I saw and really fucked up to give Kerry their last shot
Paul Broderick was the top scorer in the sport across league and championship in 2018 with a haul of 3-75 (1-29 in the Championship and 2-46 in the league). It would have been an All Star travesty if he wasn’t at the very least nominated.
Meh, a freetaker who shit the pot in the only final he played in.
You’ve crossed me now. Graham Brody is no longer my choice for the All Star goalkeeper.
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Beggan will walk it, although a massive black mark still stands beside his name for that clusterfuck in the All Ireland semi final which gave us the dullest All Ireland Final in a lifetime.
