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 All-Ireland football 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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