Donegal's Brian Roper and Waterford's Seamus Prendergast have been honoured with theOpel Gaelic Player of the Month Award for April in Football and Hurling respectively.
With Donegal winning their first ever league title, it was no surprise that one of their men was voted Footballer of the Month and new chairman of the football selection committee, Jack O'Connor, saluted the contribution of their long-serving forward.
"Brian is a real team player who is always willing to sacrifice his own game for the good of the team and on this occasion we saw that selfless side plus his ability to get scores. He fired over three valuable points from play in the first half and when the game was there to be won late on, he put his body on the line in the dramatic closing stages - a deserving winner for a loyal servant of Donegal football," said O'Connor.
Chairman of the hurling selection committee, Donal O'Grady, was loud in his praise for the effort put in by Seamus Prendergast and his Deise colleagues.
"Waterford were a breath of fresh air in the league with the way they went about their business and Seamus Prendergast was at the core of their infectious enthusiasm," O'Grady remarked.
"In the league semi-final against Cork, Seamus proved a handful in their rotating forward division. He was the same in the final against Kilkenny, in which he hit three points from play. What was particularly noticeable was the way he knuckled down to the task when the going got tough in the closing minutes. The steely resolve in which he fired over the clinching point in injury-time smacked of a man on a mission," he added.