13-05-2025
Brian Hayes and Mairéad Teehan lead the way for April accolades
Offaly's Mairéad Teehan and Síofra O'Shea of defending All-Ireland champions Kerry are the April winners of the PwC GPA Women's Player of the Month awards for camogie and football, with Cork's Brian Hayes and Meath's Mathew Costello named the PwC GAA/GPA Hurler and Footballer of the month respectively.
Teehan played a central role in guiding the Faithful County to a Division 2A title and securing their promotion to Division 1B.
In the league decider against Derry, Teehan accounted for 2-04 of the team's tally 4-13 in a dominant win.
O'Shea notched three points in Kerry's hard-fought Division 1 league final victory over Armagh, while in the Kingdom's championship opener she contributed half a dozen points in the victory over Cork.
Hayes has been chosen as the outstanding hurler for April, a key figure in a Cork forward division that has sparkled this year.
The 27-year-old tormented Tipperary as the Rebels eased to a long-awaited Division 1 title, while that blistering form carried into the Munster championship against Clare – where he notched 2-02 in the opening half at Cusack Park – and again proving a thorn in the side of Tipp on Leeside.
Meath's Matthew Costello – who found the back of the net in Sunday's Leinster football final defeat to Louth – was instrumental in helping the Royals navigate their way to a provincial decider as Carlow, Offaly and most memorably, Dublin, were defeated along the way.
