Forget the All-Stars, these are the awards that GAA players really want to win.
The Maurice Fitz award for the score with the most outrageous curl of the week
Another weekend, another ridiculous Michael Murphy score.
There’s not much in the way of outrageous curl here, but Murphy is making a habit of making ridiculous scores like this look easy.
The ball was kicked so high, in fact, that the TV cameras could barely track it and it probably had snow it by the time it sailed over the bar and landed behind the Derry goal.
Once again, just magnificent from Murphy.
The ‘business at the back and sides, party up front’ championship haircut of the week award
On a weekend in which Tomás Ó Sé said he had never seen so many impressive haircuts on one team, it’s only fitting that this week’s award should go the way of a Westmeath player.
There were a few contenders from the Lake County, but we’ve decided to plump for Paul Sharry, who wouldn’t look out of place alongside David Ginola in a L’Oreal ad with hair as magnificent as that.
The GAA shtyle statement of the week
No disputing the winner this week, it has to be Tomás Ó Sé.
Tomás might as well have asked to be shaken and stirred such was his resemblance to James Bond while wearing a fetching dicky bow that attracted quite an amount of attention on The Sunday Game last night.
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Your move Donal Óg.
The ‘did he get that from the soccer?’ showboat of the week
There was nothing particularly fancy about Diarmuid Connolly’s first goal for Dublin against Kildare yesterday, but the way it was pulled off, in a languid, effortless style with a perfectly-executed finish was just a joy to watch.
The classiest footballer in the game at the moment? It would be hard to argue otherwise.
Sign that maybe the GAA isn’t getting soft at all award
For the second week in a row, we’ve decided that the GAA is not getting soft at all after watching a series of huge hits delivered over the weekend’s football.
Niall Holly’s thundering (and possibly illegal?) hit on Colm McFadden came close, but Wexford’s Graeme Molloy gets the gong this week after a bone-crunching and perfectly-timed hit on a Down opponent.
The passion of the Wexford Footballers was a sight to behold yesterday, this Grame Molloy “tackle” on a Down player exemplified this.
Posted by Official Wexford GAA on Sunday, 28 June 2015
Boom.
Only in the GAA moment of the week
Only on a GAA TV show would you hear a story like the one Martin McHugh told on The Sunday Game that involved Kerry, Monaghan, Banty McEnaney, pregnant women and a man drinking in a pub.
What the hell was he on about anyway?
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
For the week that’s in it, we’ve decided that it has to go to a Westmeath man.
While Kieran Martin and the dancing fan are worthy contenders, we’re giving it to John Heslin for a man of the match display in which he kicked 1-10 and was inspirational throughout.
*All images and clips courtesy of Inpho and The Sunday Game
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