1981 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1981 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
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Event 1981 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry Offaly
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1-12
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Date20 September 1981
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
Attendance61,489
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The 1981 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 94th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1981 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kerry completed a four-in-a-row with a brilliant Jack O'Shea goal. [1]

It was the second of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1980s. [2]

Match details

20 September 1981
Final		 Kerry 1-12 – 0-8 Offaly Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 61,489
Referee: Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
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References

  1. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.

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