Quintet of Dubs on All-Star football team as 5 counties represented

Five counties are represented on the PwC GAA/GPA All-Star football team, with All-Ireland champions Dublin leading the way.

A traditional Dublin-Kerry final is reflected in five places for the champions and four for the Kingdom, with a quartet of Derry players also recognised, along with one player from Monaghan and one from Roscommon.

Aaron Gillane and David Clifford were voted by their peers as the PwC GAA/GPA Hurler and Footballer of the Year at the PwC All-Stars at Dublin's RDS in Ballsbridge.

Gillane brings yet more glory to the Patrickswell club who have a proud tradition of All-Star success and have also impressively supplied recent hurlers of the year in Cian Lynch and Diarmaid Byrnes.

Clifford is the first ever footballer crowned back-to-back player of the year and he joins fellow nominee Brian Fenton and Meath legend Trevor Giles as a modern-day two-time winner.

Stephen Cluxton, Mick Fitzsimons, James McCarthy, Brian Fenton and Colm Basquel are the five Dubs honoured. Cluxton is now a seven-time All-Star with only Kerry's Pat Spillane (nine) and Colm Cooper (eight) ahead of him.

Tom O'Sullivan, Sean O'Shea and Clifford brothers, Paudie and David, are the Kerry quartet, with Derry's four awards going to Conor McCluskey, Gareth McKinless, Brendan Rogers and Shane McGuigan.

Enda Smith is Roscommon's first All-Star since 2001, while Conor McCarthy of Monaghan is also honoured.

The PwC Young Hurler of the Year award went to Clare's All-Star nominee Mark Rodgers while Derry’s Ethan Doherty was voted Young Footballer of the Year by their peers after both caught the eye in campaigns that brought them to All-Ireland semi-finals.

2023 Football XV

1. Stephen Cluxton (Dublin)

A seventh All-Star for the returning Dub.