Galway midfielder Paul Conroy has been named GAA Footballer of the Year, while Clare forward Shane O’Donnell won the Hurler of the Year award.

Conroy beat team-mate John Maher and Armagh’s All-Ireland winner Barry McCambridge for the football award.

It is the third time a Galway player has won the GAA’s top individual football award after Jarlath Fallon (1998) and Declan Meehan (2001).

Conroy’s success follows confirmation on Thursday that he was one of five All-Star winners among All-Ireland runners-up.

Armagh’s All-Ireland winner Oisin Conaty took the Young Footballer of the Year title ahead of Galway’s Johnny McGrath and Donegal’s Ciaran Moore.

O’Donnell, meanwhile, has become the fourth Clare player to take the hurling title after Brian Lohan (1995), Jamesie O’Connor (1997) and Tony Kelly (2013).

Banner County’s star forward won the All-Ireland Hurling title for the first time since 2013, beating Cork in an epic final.

O’Donnell beat Cork midfielder Darragh Fitzgibbon and Limerick defender Kyle Hayes, becoming the first non-Limerick player to win since Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan in 2019.

His teammate Adam Hogan won the Young Hurler of the Year award, beating Cork’s Eoin Downey and Limerick’s Cathal O’Neill.

O’Donnell and Hogan are two of six Clare players to make the season’s Hurling All-Star team, with losing finalists Cork accounting for five players and Limerick claiming four All-Stars.