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11 Sept 2025

Why they won: All the winners from the Donegal Sports Star Awards profiled

There was a full house for the 48th Donegal Sports Star, where Donegal manager Jim McGuinness was the special guest on a night where there were 161 nominees in over 40 categories


The Winner of the 2023 Soccer Award was Erin McLaughlin, Peamount United.
Erin McLaughlin is winning her second Donegal Sports Star Awards having taken the Best Secondary School Girl title in 2018. Last year the Culdaff woman certainly made her mark in senior women’s soccer. The 20-year-old was a member of the Peamount Utd side that won the National Senior Women’s League and she was ranked among the top three players in the competition just missing out on being named Player of the Year.
But, there was more big news as the midfielder made her Irish senior debut in a friendly against Zambia at the Tallaght Stadium. She then made her first competitive start away to Albania in October as the Irish team sealed promotion to the Women’s Nations League top tier.

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