McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars 2025
The McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars in camogie are:
1. Mya McKinley – Loreto Coleraine
2. Amy Gault – St Dominic’s Belfast
3. Laoise McCollam – St Killian’s Garron Tower
4. Áine Young – St Pius X Magherafelt
5. Erin Stewart – St Dominic’s Belfast
6. Erin McNaughton – St Killian’s Garron Tower
7. Eimear Ward – St Killian’s Garron Tower
8. Eimhear McCloskey – St Louis Ballymena
9. Amelie Annett – St Dominic’s Belfast
10. JoJo Darragh – St Conor’s Kilrea/Clady
11. Emma Quinn – St Patrick’s Maghera
12. Eimear McCaughan – Cross & Passion Ballycastle
13. Emma Hart – St Catherine’s Armagh
14. Jessica McCreesh – Our Lady’s Newry
15. Adria McAllister – Cross & Passion Ballycastle
No fewer than 11 Antrim under-age players feature in the fourth McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars camogie team that collected their awards on Tuesday night at a gala dinner in the Whitla Hall in Queen’s.
There are three awards for St Killian’s Garron Tower and all three pick up jerseys in defence – Laoise McCollam, Erin McNaughton and Eimear Ward .
The other three are for St Dominic’s Belfast who won the Dr Cunningham Cup on their way to a first All-Ireland title for a Belfast school and two of those are in defence – Erin Stewart and Amy Gault. The other St Dominic’s player on the team is Amelie Annett and she forms an all-Antrim midfield with Eimhear McCloskey from St Louis Ballymena.
Both Cross and Passion Ballycastle players, Eimear McCaughan and Adria McAllister, are included on the left wing of the forward line, while Adria’s Dunloy team-mate Mya McKinley, a student in Loreto Coleraine, is the goalkeeper.
The final Antrim player in the team also attends a school across the Bann. Portglenone’s Jojo Darragh was in excellent form for St Conor’s Clady/Kilrea during their run to the All-Ireland senior final, scoring 2-4 in their semi-final win in Westport.
Meanwhile Aoife Fitzsimons, a regular with the Antrim minor camogie team this season and joint-captain of the St Dominic’s team that won the All-Ireland schools’ camogie title in March, has been included in defence in the Future Stars LGFA football team.
There are two other Antrim players featuring in the football team. Anna Rice who plays for Glenavy and also St Dominic’s is in midfield while St Mary’s Magherafelt and Cargin defender Laura Scullion also makes the team.
This is the fourth year that camogie has been included in the McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars awards scheme and Ulster schools’ secretary Úna Kelly feels that it is a great addition to the schools’ camogie calendar.
“The trials this year were of a very high standard and it is great to see emerging talent get the recognition they deserve. Some come from schools that are strong in camogie while others are playing at a much lower level in our competitions.
“These awards will hopefully give them all the boost they need to push on into senior schools’ and minor inter-county teams and ultimately have a long and successful career at senior level.
“Already we have seen no fewer than seven from the very first team in 2022 play for their senior intercountry team in this year’s National League – Eimear Doherty and Orlaith Hull with Derry and Sarah O’Neill, Erin Coulter, Shannagh Heggarty, Janey McIntosh and Orlaith McAlister with Antrim.”
2024-25 McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars:
Ladies Football
| 1 | Aoibheann Watt | St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon |
| 2 | Aoife Fitzsimons | St Dominic’s Belfast |
| 3 | Annie Crowe | Loreto Cavan |
| 4 | Anna Lavery | St Ronan’s College |
| 5 | Keeva Owens | Loreto Grammar Omagh |
| 6 | Laura Scullion | St Mary’s Magherafelt |
| 7 | Méabh Vallely | St Catherine’s College Armagh |
| 8 | Anna Rice | St Dominic’s Belfast |
| 9 | Aoife McDermott | St Columba’s Comprehensive Glenties |
| 10 | Cara McMoran | St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon |
| 11 | Karyn McGinn | Largy College |
| 12 | Sarah McAvinney | Coláiste Dhún an Rí |
| 13 | Kayla O’Reilly | St Clare’s College Cavan |
| 14 | Charlotte Havern | St Paul’s High School Bessbrook |
| 15 | Caoimhe Gollogly | St Patrick’s Keady |
2024-25 McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars:
(HURLING)
1 Oisín McLaren (De La Salle Belfast)
2. Paddy Morgan (St Killian’s Garron Tower)
3. Emmet óg Mac Íomhair (Gaelcholáiste Dhoire)
4. Matthew Murray (St Mary’s CBGS Belfast)
5. Dylan McNaughton (St Killian’s Garron Tower)
6. Eunan Johnston (Cross & Passion Ballycastle)
7. Tom Hickson (Our Lady & St Patrick’s Knock)
8. Logan McConville (Cross & Passion Ballycastle)
9. Darren Delander (St Mary’s CBGS Belfast)
10. Danny Doyle (St Colman’s Newry)
11. Conor Sargent (St Mary’s Magherafelt)
12. Darragh Kinney (Cross & Passion Ballycastle)
13. Peadar Pio Ó Duibhne (Gaelcholáiste Dhoire)
14. Nathan McKenna (Coláiste Feirste)
15. Sean Donnelly (Dean Maguirc Carrickmore)
THE McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars hurling team, announced at a gala dinner in the Whitla hall, is dominated by Antrim and five of those involved in the recent Danske Bank Foresters’ Cup final included.
Matthew Murray and Darren Delander are the pair from St Mary’s CBGS while the three players from Cross & Passion Ballycastle – Eunan Johnston, Logan McConville and Darragh Kinney – featured for the school in their Mageean Cup and All-Ireland Paddy Buggy Cup successes.
There are also two from St Killian’s Garron Tower, defenders Paddy Morgan and Dylan McNaughton, and one each from Belfast schools La Salle (Oisín McLaren) and Coláiste Feirste (Nathan McKenna).
Danny Doyle from St Colman’s College Newry has been selected on both the hurling and football teams, a first in the awards scheme that was introduced for football ten years ago and hurling was added in 2019. Doyle, who plays for Newry Shamrocks and Down under-age teams was selected at midfield on the football side and in the half-forward line for the hurling team.
There are two Antrim players listed in that football team, Portglenone’s Tom Duffin (St Conor’s College) and Joe Logan, Rathmore Grammar and St Bridget’s.
Meanwhile Jay Gault picks up one of the two awards for male handballers. Jay has represented St Mary’s CBGS in both hurling and football this year and is twin brother of Amy who made the camogie team. The twins mother is Ciara Gault, an All-Ireland winner in camogie with Antrim while their grandfather is the legendary Jim Nelson.
2024-25 McKeever Sports Queen’s University Future Stars:
(FOOTBALL)
| Eoin Monaghan | St Mary’s College Irvinestown |
| Bobby Magowan | St Mark’s Warrenpoint |
| Mark Wilkinson | St Columba’s College Stranorlar |
| Aodhan Quinn | St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon |
| Ciaran McCrystal | Dean Maguirc College Carrickmore |
| Darragh Feeney | St Macartan’s College, Monaghan |
| Tom Duffin | St Conor’s College, Clady/Kilrea |
| Danny Doyle | St Colman’s College Newry |
| Elliot Kerr | St Ciaran’s Ballygawley |
| Peter Colton | Omagh CBS |
| Tomás Carr | Abbey Vocational School |
| Joel Kerr | St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon |
| Brian óg McGuckin | St Patrick’s Armagh |
| Joe Logan | Rathmore Grammar Belfast |
| Eoghan Convie | Lecale Trinity Grammar School, Downpatrick |
