Mayo 54 All Stars and counting….
Mayo have amassed a total of 49 All-Stars since the scheme was officially initiated in 1971. Johnny Carey from Bangor, then playing with Tuam Stars, made the very first team at right-full back. The most recent winner was Patrick Durcan in November 2019.
Davitts clubman Colm Boyle, Ballyhaunis’s Keith Higgins & Westport’s Lee Keegan are now Mayo’s most decorated winner with four awards each. Lee Keegan was also named GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year in 2016 while Keith Higgins was named Young Player of the Year in 2006.
Breaffy’s Aidan O’Shea has three awards to his name, while Willie Joe Padden, Dermot Flanagan, Kenneth Mortimer, Alan Dillon, James Nallen, James Horan, David Clarke & Andy Moran are the Mayo players who have been selected twice. Andy Moran was also named GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year in 2017.
Cillian O’Connor was twice named Young Player of the Year, winning the award in successive years, 2012 & 2013. His brother Diarmuid O’Connor won the same award, winning it in 2015 and again in 2016.
Oisin Mullin was honoured as Young Player of the Year 2020 & 2021
Mayo’s All Stars:
1971: Johnny Carey (Right-Corner Back).
1979: Joe McGrath (Left-Full Forward).
1985: Dermot Flanagan (Left-Corner Back), Willie Joe Padden (Midfield), Kevin McStay (Right-Full Forward).
1989: Gabriel Irwin (Goalkeeper), Jimmy Browne (Right-Corner Back), Dermot Flanagan (Left-Corner Back), Willie Joe Padden (Midfield), Noel Durkin (Left-Half Forward).
1992: TJ Kilgallon (Midfield).
1993: Kevin O’Neill (Right-Half Forward).
1996: Kenneth Mortimer (Right-Corner Back), Pat Holmes (Right-Half Back), James Nallen (Centre-Half Back), Liam McHale (Midfield), James Horan (Left-Half Forward).
1997: Kenneth Mortimer (Right-Corner Back), Pat Fallon (Midfield).
1999: James Horan (Left-Half Forward).
2004: James Nallen (Centre-Half Back), Ciaran McDonald (Centre-Half Forward)
2006: Alan Dillon (Left-Half Forward), Conor Mortimer (Right-Full Forward).
2011: Andy Moran (Full Forward).
2012: Ger Cafferkey (Full Back), Keith Higgins (Left-Corner Back), Lee Keegan (Right-Half Back), Alan Dillon (Centre-Half Forward).
2013: Keith Higgins (Left-Corner Back), Lee Keegan (Right-Half Back), Colm Boyle (Left-Half Back), Aiden O’Shea (Midfield).
2014: Keith Higgins (Left-Corner Back), Colm Boyle (Left-Half Back), Cillian O’Connor (Right-Corner Forward).
2015: Lee Keegan (Right-Half Back), Aiden O’Shea (Full Forward).
2016: David Clarke (Goalkeeper), Brendan Harrison (Right-Corner Back) Lee Keegan (Right-Half Back), Colm Boyle (Centre Half Back).
2017: David Clarke (Goalkeeper), Chris Barrett (Right-Corner Back), Keith Higgins (Left-Corner Back), Colm Boyle (Right-Half Back), Aidan O’Shea (Centre-Half Forward), Andy Moran (Left-Corner Forward).
2019: Patrick Durcan (Right-Half Back).
2020: Oisin Mullin (Right-Corner Back), Cillian O’Connor (Right-Corner Forward).
2021: Lee Keegan (Full-Back) Matthew Ruane (Midfield), Ryan O’Donoghue (Full Forward)
