Rising stars of the GAA named after UCC do a clean sweep of college competitions

The biggest rising stars of GAA have been named after the conclusion of the third level competions.

It is no surprise that UCC, champions of both the Fitzgibbon Cup and Sigerson Cup, dominate the final 15 in both codes for the Electric Ireland HE GAA Rising Stars.

They have fourteen representatives from both hurling and football while there are five different colleges represented on each XV.

The teams includes a host of inter-county stars like Aaron Gillane who dazzled for Mary Immaculate College and Kerry forward Sean O'Shea who was named footballer of the year after continuing to impress for UCC.

The hurler of the year crown went to another Kerryman and UCC star Shane Conway.

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The Fitzgibbon Cup XV is made up of eight players from the champions, Mary Immaculate College have three representatives, DCU DE have two and NUI Galway and GMIT have one each.

And the Sigerson Cup select team sees six players from UCC, four from St Mary’s University College, two from NUI Galway and UCD, and a single representative from LYIT.

Electric Ireland HE GAA Rising Stars 2019

FOOTBALL

1  Mark Reid (St Mary's)

2  Brian O'Beaglaoich (UCC)

3  Kevin McDonnell (NUIG)

4  Graham O'Sullivan (UCC)

5  Cian Kiely (UCC)

6  Daniel O'Brien (UCC)

7  Cillian O'Shea (UCD)

8  Jarlath Og Burns (St Mary's)

9  Padraig Lucey (UCC)

10  Michael Langan (LYIT)

11  Sean O'Shea (UCC)

12  Peter Cooke (NUIG)

13  Stephen McConville (St Mary's)

14  Evan O'Carroll (UCD)

15  Shane McGuigan (St Mary's)

Footballer of the Year:  Sean O'Shea (UCC)  

HURLING

1  Eoghan Cahill (Mary Immaculate)

2  Niall O'Leary (UCC)

3  Eddie Gunning (UCC)

4  Thomas Grimes (Mary Immaculate)

5  Chris O'Leary (UCC)

6  Paddy O'Loughlin (UCC)

7  Chris Crummey (DCU)

8  Conor Browne (UCC)

9  Jarlath Mannion (GMIT)

10  Shane Kingston (UCC)

11  Aaron Gillane (Mary Immaculate)

12  James Bergin (DCU)

13  Evan Niland (NUIG)

14  Shane Conway (UCC)

15  Mark Kehoe (UCC)

Hurler of the Year:  Shane Conway (UCC)

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