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| Event | 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 22 September 1974 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Paddy Devlin (Tyrone) [1] | ||||||
| Attendance | 71,898 | ||||||
The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 87th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Galway led 1–4 to 0–5 at half-time, with a Michael Rooney goal. Paddy Cullen saved a penalty kick (placed 17th in RTÉ's 2005 series Top 20 GAA Moments ) and Kevin Heffernan's Dublin staged a comeback to win by five points. [2] The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park. [3]
It was Galway's second consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland SFC final; they lost to Cork in 1973. [4]
Paddy Devlin, who had previously taken charge of the 1972 replay, was the last Tyrone man to referee an All-Ireland SFC final until Sean Hurson took charge of the 2022 final. [1]
| 22 September 1974 Final | Dublin | 0–14 – 1–6 | Galway | Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 71,898 Referee: Paddy Devlin (Tyrone) |
| M Rooney 1–1, T Naughton 0–2, J Duggan 0–1, J Tobin 0–1, J Hughes 0–1 | J Keaveney 0–8, B Mullins 0–2, D Hickey 0–2, A O'Toole 0–1, J McCarthy 0–1 |
         Dublin |     Galway |
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Offaly beat us in 1971 by 1 – 14 to 2 – 8, and in 1973, Cork beat us by 3 – 17 to 2 – 13. In 1974, the final score was Dublin 0 – 14 to Galway's 1 – 6, and in 1983 Dublin repeated the victory by 1 – 10 to our 1 – 8.
