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James Gould

Kieran McGeary and Cian Lynch win top individual awards at the PwC GAA-All stars

Tyrone's Kieran McGeary and Limerick's Cian Lynch have won the top individual awards at the PwC GAA-All stars.

Pomeroy native Kieran McGeary picked up Footballer of the Year for 2021 and Cian Lynch won Hurler of the Year.

Limerick were fantastic in 2021, completing a first back-to-back All-Ireland success in their history, and Lynch was keyat centre-half forward.

A heroic performance in the final win over Cork showed Lynch was key to Limerick's success.

Lynch joins Henry Shefflin as the only multiple Hurler of the Year winner since 1995 but when including the old Texaco Awards, DJ Carey, Brian Whelehan and Brian Corcoran are the other multiple winners.

A stand out performance against Kerry from McGeary in the All-Ireland semi-final demonstrated his importance to the Tyrone team.

His GPS stats from the Kerry game were mentioned by a teammate and were rumoured to be incredible.

To get to an All-Ireland final was nothing short of heroic from Tyrone, as Ulster teams usually find it so difficult to get that far in the competition.

Speaking to RTE on winning the award a modest McGeary said: "I didn't think that was coming to be honest."

"It tops off an incredible year."

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