List of Ladies' Gaelic footballers features notable players of ladies' Gaelic football.
Position | Player | County | |
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Goalkeeper | Clíodhna O'Connor | Dublin | |
Right corner back | Rebecca Hallahan | Waterford | |
Full back | Angela Walsh | Cork | |
Left corner back | Rena Buckley | Cork | |
Right half back | Briege Corkery | Cork | |
Centre half back | Jenny Greenan | Monaghan | |
Left half back | Emer Flaherty | Galway | |
Midfield | Juliet Murphy | Cork | |
Midfield | Mary O'Donnell | Waterford | |
Right half forward | Nollaig Cleary | Cork | |
Centre half forward | Christina Heffernan | Mayo | |
Left half forward | Tracey Lawlor | Laois | |
Right corner forward | Valerie Mulcahy | Cork | |
Full forward | Geraldine O'Shea | Kerry | |
Left corner forward | Cora Staunton | Mayo |
In December 2014, after winning their ninth All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship title, the Cork senior ladies' football team won the RTÉ Sports Team of the Year Award. They were the first female team to win the award. They received 27% of the vote, beating the Ireland men's national rugby union team, winners of the 2014 Six Nations Championship, by 11%.[1] [2] [3]
Player | ||
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1 | Martina O'Brien | |
2 | Roisín Phelan | |
3 | Angela Walsh | |
4 | Bríd Stack | |
5 | Vera Foley | |
6 | Deirdre O'Reilly | |
7 | Geraldine O'Flynn | |
8 | Rena Buckley | |
9 | Briege Corkery (c) | |
10 | Annie Walsh | |
11 | Ciara O'Sullivan | |
12 | Orlagh Farmer | |
13 | Valerie Mulcahy | |
14 | Grace Kearney | |
15 | Orla Finn | |
Sub | Nollaig Cleary | |
Sub | Rhona Ní Bhuachalla | |
Sub | Doireann O'Sullivan | |
Sub | Eimear Scally |
Player | Gaelic football | Field hockey | |
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Naomi Carroll | Clare | Ireland | |
Nicola Daly | Dublin | Ireland | |
Deirdre Duke | Dublin | Ireland | |
Mary Geaney | Kerry | Ireland | |
Dora Gorman | Galway | Ireland | |
Sarah Hawkshaw | Dublin | Ireland |
At the 2015 Nations Cup tournament the Northern Ireland national netball team featured three ladies' Gaelic football inter-county captains – Caroline O'Hanlon (Armagh), Neamh Woods (Tyrone) and Laura Mason (Down).[4] At the 2019 Netball World Cup, of the twelve players that featured in the Northern Ireland squad, seven were ladies' Gaelic footballers. These included O'Hanlon, Woods, Emma Magee, Michelle Magee, Ciara Crosbie, Michelle Drayne and Gemma Lawlor.[5]
Player | Gaelic football | Netball | |
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Ciara Crosbie | Down | Northern Ireland | |
Gemma Lawlor | Down | Northern Ireland | |
Michelle Drayne | Antrim | Northern Ireland | |
Emma Magee | Antrim | Northern Ireland | |
Michelle Magee | Antrim | Northern Ireland | |
Laura Mason | Down | Northern Ireland | |
Caroline O'Hanlon | Armagh | Northern Ireland | |
Neamh Woods | Tyrone | Northern Ireland |