It’s a good day to be from Galway…
Dublin hurler Shane Durkan is the best looking GAA player in Ireland according to a poll from American women.
Paddy Power compiled the survey where they spoke to over 1,000 American women, who knew absolutely zilch about GAA, and asked them to rate the head and shoulders photos of every inter-county player in the country.
They also took into account information about the voting women so that they could further break down the results into demographics.
Féilim Mac An Iomaire, a spokesperson for Paddy Power, said “Fame and success tend to bias surveys like this this so we decided to remove it, and we genuinely believe that we have found the 100 players who would fare just as well in Coppers as they would in Croke Park.”
Surprisingly enough, Bernard Brogan and Joe Canning are absent from the upper rungs of the attractiveness scale, even though they’re quite popular with the women of this country.
Although it looks like Shane Durkan could score a lot more than goals if he wanted to, it’s the men from out West who rated the highest on average.
The Galway footballers were voted the best looking team in the country for just being such a pack of handsome b*stards (the journalist writing this piece may or may not be from Galway).
Eoin Cadogan will surely be looking up flights to America straight away after being ranked the most attractive player in Ireland by blonde haired women.
But he couldn’t get close to Durkan who was voted the most devilishly attractive GAA player in nine categories of women.
Although, if Clare hurler Patrick O’Connor is short of cash at any stage, it seems a trip across the Atlantic could yield him a lavish lifestyle with some high flying American women. He was the most popular player among the highest earning women in the survey.
Are you free any day to give us some tips Patrick?
Top 5 Teams
1. Galway Football
2. Dublin Hurling
3. Sligo Football
4. Donegal Football
5. Galway Hurling
Bottom 5 Teams
39. Meath Football
40. Fermanagh Football
41. Leitrim Football
42. Laois Hurling
43. Tyrone Football
Top 25 Players
1. Shane Durkin – Dublin Hurling
2. Paddy Holloway – Westmeath Football
3. Eoin Cadogan – Cork Football
4. Fergal Moore – Galway Hurling
5. Kieran Joyce – Kilkenny Hurling
6. Aidan Forker – Armagh Football
7. Paddy McBrearty – Donegal Football
8. Anthony Maher – Kerry Football
9. Stephen Cronin – Cork Football
10. Danny Cummins – Galway Football
11. Fiontán Ó’Curraoin – Galway Football
12. Patrick O’Connor – Clare Hurling
13. Paddy McGrath – Donegal Football
14. Anton Sullivan – Offaly Football
15. Ken O’Halloran – Cork Football
16. Gary O’Donnell – Galway Football
17. Dean Ryan – Clare Football
18. Jamie Malone – Clare Football
19. Patrick Cronin – Cork Hurling
20. Patrick McBride – Antrim Football
21. Kevin McDonnell – Sligo Football
22. Connor Burke – Antrim Football
23. Coalan O’Boyle – Derry Football
24. Diarmuid Masterson – Longford Football
25. Shane Hickey – Clare Football
Infographics via Paddy Power.
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