Forget the All-Stars, these are the awards that GAA players really want to win.
The Championship returned with a bang at the weekend and with no major football tournament this summer and the Rugby World Cup not taking place until September, Irish sports fans will be going ga-ga for GAA throughout the summer months.
With that in mind, we want to recognise the heroes of both the football and hurling championships and have devised an awards scheme known as the GAA-mys, which will ackowledge the great deeds performed by inter-county GAA players on a weekly basis over the next few months.
Once the GAA-mmys become widely recognised and hailed throughout the industry (as we know they will), it is our intention to honour the recipients with a tangible reward that will sit easily alongside an All-Star on the mantlepiece.
Check out this week’s winners below.
The Maurice Fitz award for the score with the most outrageous curl of the week
In a game that was full of great scores, it was Joe Canning’s shot just after the break which makes the cut… terrible pun intended.
The ‘business at the back and sides, party up front’ championship haircut of the week award
Lads all over the country will be carrying pictures of Padraig Brehony into their local barbers. A truly fantastic hair cut. 
The GAA shtyle statement of the week
We heard that there was a hen party on the hill, but we didn’t realise this is what they meant. 
The ‘did he get that from the soccer?’ showboat of the week
As far as show-boating goes, having a lad smash a hurl into your hurl before you score a goal ranks pretty high in our books. Séamus Callanan, take a bow.
Sign that the GAA is getting soft award
This reward will have to remain vacant for this week. There was nothing soft about Galway’s epic victory over a hardened Tipperary team. Nothing soft at all.
Only in the GAA moment of the week
Both sides were nothing short of brilliant for the entire match, but we didn’t expect that brilliance to carry through post match. Certain Gaelic football players could learn a lot from these guys – hard, intense, yet respectful.
JOE’s Guaranteed Irish Sports’ Star of the Week Award, a tribute to the tradition of incredibly long names for award titles in the GAA
There has been several spellbinding moments in this year’s championship, but seeing cancer survivor Noel McGrath return to action is our number one moment.
McGrath may have lost the battle yesterday, but he has certainly won the war.
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