This article ranks the best Gaelic Football retirements from the 2024 Championship, focusing on Brian Fenton and James McCarthy from the Dublin team.
Some of the most influential footballers in the history of the game have stepped away ahead of the 2025 season - and there may yet, and mostly likely will, be more to follow. But, for now, we’re ranking the best of those that have announced their retirement since the conclusion of this year’s Championship.
Brian Fenton (Dublin) However Dublin’s season ended this year, retirements were inevitable but Fenton’s future wasn’t one that was the subject of speculation in the aftermath of their All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Galway. But the towering midfielder concluded that 10 seasons in blue was enough and his departure leaves a gaping hole in the Dublin team, particularly as he was still at or near the peak of his powers. Fenton had everything you would want in a modern midfielder and if the Teams of the Century/Millenium are revisited for the GAA’s 150th anniversary in 2034, he will have very compelling grounds for inclusion. James McCarthy (Dublin) Kept off the top spot by Fenton largely on the grounds that his long-time midfield partner was still at his zenith, while McCarthy’s career reached a natural conclusion after an injury-riddled 2024 that ended on a bum note for him and the team. Paradoxically, his claims to be Dublin’s greatest, even ahead of Fenton, remain intact for his length of service, the job he did for the teams in a range of positions having been comfortable across the half-back line, in midfield and even at full-back when the occasion demanded it, not to mention his leadership and drive. But there was an almost indefinable quality to McCarthy on top of all of that that made him an embodiment of one of the greatest teams in GAA histor
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