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This was a team chosen in August 1999 by a panel of GAA past presidents and journalists. [1] The goal was to single out the best ever 15 players who had played the game in their respective positions, since the foundation of the GAA in 1884 up to the Millennium year, 2000.
This is a list of all past winners of the official GAA GPA All Stars Awards in Gaelic football since the first awards in 1971. As an insight to the prominent players of the 1960s, it also includes the unofficial "Cuchulainn" awards presented from 1963 to 1967 under the auspices of Gaelic Weekly magazine.
Packy McGarty (29 April 1933 [1] [2] – 6 April 2021) was a Gaelic football player from Mohill, County Leitrim. He played for the Leitrim County Team for 23 years between 1949 and 1971, playing his first senior game at the age of 16.
Frank Stockwell (7 December 1928 – 9 March 2009) [1] was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tuam Stars and at senior level for the Galway, Louth and London county teams at various periods between 1949 and 1960. He is regarded as Galway's greatest-ever full forward. [citation needed]
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Seán O'Neill (born 1938, Newry) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer.He played with his local club John Mitchel and was a member of the Down senior inter-county team from the 1950s until the 1960s.
Gallagher regularly topped the nation’s scoring charts in the 1960s. He debut for Cavan in 1955 at the age of 17 years, against Sligo in the National Football League. He won Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1962, 1964, 1967 and 1969. He also won an Ulster Junior Football Championship medal in 1962. He was captain of Cavan in 1967 ...
Desmond Foley was born into a farming family at Kinsealy, County Dublin in 1940. [2] As a young man he showed particular skill at Gaelic games, winning four Dublin County Senior Hurling Championships with the St Vincents GAA club, having earlier captained the school team of St Joseph's, Fairview which brought the All-Ireland Colleges football title to Dublin for the first time.