1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final programme.jpg
Event 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin Galway
Colours of Dublin.svg Colours of Galway.svg
0–14
(14)		1–6
(9)
Date22 September 1974
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Paddy Devlin (Tyrone) [1]
Attendance71,898
WeatherDry
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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.

Contents

This was one of the 13 consecutive All-Ireland SFC finals contested by either Dublin or Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider. [2]

Match

Summary

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. [3] The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park. [4]

It was Galway's second consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland SFC final; they lost to Cork in 1973. [5]

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]

Details

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 0–1J Keaveney 0–8, B Mullins 0–2, D Hickey 0–2, A O'Toole 0–1, J McCarthy 0–1

Dublin

Subs not used
16 Brendan Pocock
17 Bernard Donovan
18 Dave Billings
19 Kevin Synnott
20 Paddy Gogarty
21 Les Deegan
22 Pat O'Neill
23 Jim Brogan
24 Fran Ryder
Manager
Kevin Heffernan

Galway

Subs used
J. Burke for C. McDonagh

Legacy

The players involved in the game organised a golden jubilee reunion in 2024. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final". 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Crowe, Dermot (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". Sunday Independent . From 1974 to 1986, every final had Kerry or Dublin in it and in six of those they were the final pairing. They shared every All-Ireland going in that time save for Offaly's famous heist of 1982.
  3. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  4. ↑ "Five other All-Ireland final Canal End penalty 'misses'". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media. 23 September 2005.
  5. ↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser . Retrieved 14 April 2011. 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.
  6. ↑ Crowe, Dermot (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". Sunday Independent . Last year Galway and Dublin had a reunion to mark the golden jubilee of the '74 final.
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