CORK players fare best, winning 10 awards, in the awards scheme to honour the players who have participated in the All-Ireland club championships over the past 25 years.

Cork have won six awards in hurling and four in football and both the county's current managers, Billy Morgan and Jimmy Barry Murphy, are named on the football selection.

That Barry Murphy doesn't make the hurling team might be seen as a surprise given that St Finbarr's were equally prominent in both codes and that he won two All-Ireland medals in each.

No player, however, is honoured in both football and hurling. Cork's representation is not surprising given the county's track record in the competitions.

Given the huge scope of the canvas, there's no real point in dragging over who is on the team and who is not, but Ulster teams are likely to feel a bit miffed. Only Niall Patterson, in goal for the hurlers, is honoured despite the fact that Ulster clubs have won four football titles.

Connacht are necessarily absent from the football team as the province has yet to send across the Shannon a club which comes back with the Merrigan Cup. Two Galway hurlers, Conor Hayes and Joe Cooney, are, however, honoured.

John O'Keeffe is the only player honoured to have won a medal with different clubs, UCD in 1974 and his local club, Tralee's Austin Stacks, in 1977.

Ten clubs are represented in the hurling team and nine on the football. The football selection is more egalitarian with four players picked who never won All-Ireland inter-county medals: Baltinglass pair Hugh Kenny and Kevin O'Brien, Tom Prendergast of Portlaoise and Eamonn O'Donoghue who was on the UCD team but played county with Kildare.