Garda trainee nominated for TG4 Player of the Year award

THE NOMINEES have been announced for the 2023 TG4 Players’ Player of the Year Awards in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior grades.

Garda trainee and intermediate LGFA player Fidelma Marrinan has been nominated for Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year Award.

Marrinan claimed the ZuCar Golden Boot Award as leading scorer across all three grades in the 2023 TG4 All-Ireland Championships, contributing 5-38.

She took up her training to become a member of An Garda Síochána on October 16, and will will pass out as probationary Gardaí in Spring 2024 alongside her fellow trainees in Intake 243 currently in the Garda College.

Marrian is up against Antrim’s Orlaith Prenter and Kildare's Roisín Byrne in her catagory. Byrne and Marrinan have also been nominated for TG4 All-Star Awards.

She and her fellow Clarewomen, Caoimhe Harvey Chloe Moloney and Síofra Ní Chonaill, received awards for the 2023 Ladies Football Intermediate Team of the Championship on November 3.

The winners will be revealed at the 2023 TG4 All-Star Awards banquet at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday, November 18.