| Year | Captain - Plummers | |
| 1976 | Frank Herron | |
| 1977 | Des Morgan | |
| 1978 | Des Fogarty | |
| 1979 | Paddy O'Neill | |
| 1980 | Michael Atherton | |
| 1981 | Kevin Madden | |
| 1982 | Noel Mulvin | |
| 1983 | Ray Downey | |
| 1984 | Donn O'Shaughnessy | |
| 1986 | Earle Murray | |
| 1987 | Rodney Spence | |
| 1988 | John Nolan | |
| 1989 | Paddy McCann | |
| 1990 | George Stedmond | |
| 1991 | Noel McDonnell | |
| 1992 | David Little | |
| 1993 | Peter Varian | |
| 1994 | Tom McGovern | |
| 1995 | Stan Clarke | |
| 1996 | Michael McDonagh | |
| 1997 | Cyril Knight | |
| 1998 | Brian Murphy | |
| 1999 | Seamus Homan | |
| 2000 | Derek Vaughan | |
| 2001 | Ivan Austin | |
| 2002 | Dermot Hassett | |
| 2003 | Jim Houton | |
| 2004 | Brendan Barrett | |
| 2005 | Vincent Dillon | |
| 2006 | Dermot Cronin | |
| 2007 | Michael P Purcell | |
| 2008 | Brendan McAndrew | |
| 2009 | Paul Hatton | |
| 2010 | Louis Fox | |
| 2011 | Roger Copsey | |
| 2012 | James Whiston | |
| 2013 | Paul Quinn | |
| 2014 | Matt Campbell | |
| 2015 | Karl Unger | |
| 2016 | Sean Hayes |  |
| 2017 | Paddy McMahon |  |
| 2018 | Brendan Conway |  |
| 2019 | Ronan King |  |
| 2020 | Alan Dooley |  |
| 2021 | Colm Dennehy |  |
| 2022 | Barry Timlin |  |
| 2023 | Brian Monahan |  |
| 2024 | Michael Sweeney |  |