Seven Tipperary players on GPA hurling team of the year

Seven players from All-Ireland champions Tipperary have been named on the Opel Gaelic Players’ Association Hurling Team of the Year.

Four players from All-Ireland runners-up Kilkenny have made the final cut, along with three players from Waterford and one from Galway.

Tipperary’s Lar Corbett and Brendan Maher have been nominated for hurler of the year alongside Kilkenny duo Michael Fennelly and Tommy Walsh.

Chairman of the Hurling Selection Committee Donal O'Grady paid tribute to the players that made the fifteen, saying: “It is a special honour to be recognised by your fellow hurlers and I would like to pay tribute to the 15 chosen by the players on this year's Opel GPA Hurling Team of the Year.

“As a selection committee we chose who we believed were the three most deserving nominees for each position along with six midfielders, and the players then made the ultimate choice.”

The hurler of the year will be announced at a Gala Night in the Citywest Hotel on 5 November.

2010 Opel GPA Hurling team of the year:

1 - Brendan Cummins (Tipperary)

2 - Noel Connors (Waterford)

3 - Paul Curran (Tipperary)

4 - Jackie Tyrell (Kilkenny)

5 - Tommy Walsh (Kilkenny)

6 - Michael Walsh (Waterford)

7 - Padraic Maher (Tipperary)

8 - Michael Fennelly (Kilkenny)

9 - Brendan Maher (Tipperary)

10 - Damien Hayes (Galway)

11 - Noel McGrath (Tipperary)

12 - Lar Corbett (Tipperary)

13 - Eoin Kelly (Tipperary)

14 - Richie Power (Kilkenny)

15 - John Mullane (Waterford)