ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Tipperary lead the way with seven All-Stars on the 2025 PwC GAA/GPA hurling selection, while beaten finalists Cork have four awarded.

Leinster champions Kilkenny have two players on the team, while Dublin’s Cian O’Sullivan and Galway’s Cathal Mannion complete the selection. There are ten first-time winners, the largest number of newcomers since the 2013 side.

Huw Lawlor, Ronan Maher, and Darragh Fitzgibbon all claim their third All-Stars, while there is a second award for both John McGrath and Mannion.

Cork midfielder Fitzgibbon is the only member of last year’s team again honoured on this occasion.

Kilkenny’s Martin Keoghan emulates the achievement of his father Liam who was an All-Star winner back in 1997.

For the Mahers and McGraths in Tipperary, this represents the latest achievement by their families. Ronan Maher’s third award is added to the six won by his older brother Padraic. John McGrath’s second award compliments the three won by his older brother Noel.

2025 All-Star Hurling Team

(Previous winning years in brackets)

Goalkeeper

• Rhys Shelly (Tipperary – Moycarkey Borris) – 1st award.

Defenders

• Robert Doyle (Tipperary – Clonoulty Rossmore) – 1st award.
• Huw Lawlor (Kilkenny – O’Loughlin Gaels) – 3rd award (2022 and 2023).
• Sean O’Donoghue (Cork – Inniscarra) – 1st award.
• Ciaran Joyce (Cork – Castlemartyr) – 1st award.
• Ronan Maher (Tipperary – Thurles Sarsfields) – 3rd award (2016 and 2019).
• Eoghan Connolly (Tipperary – Cashel King Cormacs) – 1st award.

Midfielders

• Cathal Mannion (Galway – Ahascragh Fohenagh) – 2nd award (2015)
• Darragh Fitzgibbon (Cork – Charleville) – 3rd award (2018 and 2024).

Forwards

• Jake Morris (Tipperary – Nenagh Éire Óg) – 1st award.
• Andrew Ormond (Tipperary – JK Brackens) – 1st award.
• Cian O’Sullivan (Dublin – St Brigid’s) – 1st award.
• Martin Keoghan (Kilkenny – Tullaroan) – 1st award.
• John McGrath (Tipperary – Loughmore Castleiney) – 2nd award (2016).
• Brian Hayes (Cork – St Finbarr’s) – 1st award.

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Written by Fintan O’Toole and originally published on The 42 whose award-winning team produces original content that you won’t find anywhere else: on GAA, League of Ireland, women’s sport and boxing, as well as our game-changing rugby coverage, all with an Irish eye. Subscribe here.