The Handballing community turned out in style for the 2017 O'Neills GAA Handball All-Stars at a Gale Ceremony at Croke Park on Saturday night.
The night was all about rewarding excellence and an exciting new format saw awards for Players, Volunteers, Administrators & Clubs alike. Finalists in every category were in attendance, with winners announced on the night, after a mixture of public, player and committee vote, by esteemed friend of Handball & RTE New Reader Eileen Dunne.
GAA Handball would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all finalists and winners, and to thank our various sponsors O'Neills, Together Digital, Macsports, Advertees & MMI.
The main POTY Awards went to Armagh's Charly Shanks, (40x20 All-Ireland Champion & Current Irish #1) and Cork's Catriona Casey (40x20 + 60x30 All-Ireland Champion & Current Irish #1). Check out a short video review of their years below.
2017 All-Star Winners:
- Male POTY - Charly Shanks (Armagh)
- Female POTY - Catriona Casey (Cork)
- Young Male POTY - Tadhg O'Neill (Cork)
- Young Female POTY - Fiona Tully (Roscommon)
- Club of the Year - Moycullen (Galway)
- Venue of the Year - Kingscourt (Cavan)
- Administrator of the Year - Joe O'Connell (Galway)
- Volunteer of the Year - Gavin Buggy (Wexford)
- Club Person of the Year - Michelle Warren (Tyrone)
- Hall of Fame Inductees - Tim Healy RIP (Cork), Seamus O'Fathearta (Galway), Joe Masterson (Offaly), Billy Silcock (Antrim)
Pictures listed in order of above.
Male POTY Award collected by Conor McDonnell, Ulster Chairman, on behalf of Charly Shanks
Tim Healy's Award collected by his son Ger.