1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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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.
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
[edit]Summary
[edit]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
[edit]| 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 |
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    Galway
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Dublin
- 1 Paddy Cullen
- 2 Gay O'Driscoll
- 3 Seán Doherty (c)
- 4 Robbie Kelleher
- 5 Paddy Reilly
- 6 Alan Larkin
- 7 Georgie Wilson
- 8 Stephen Rooney
- 9 Brian Mullins
- 10 Booby Doyle
- 11 Tony Hanahoe
- 12 David Hickey
- 13 John McCarthy
- 14 Jimmy Keaveney
- 15 Anton O'Toole
- 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
- 1 Gay Mitchell (c)
- 2 Joe Waldron
- 3 Jack Cosgrove
- 4 Brendan Colleran
- 5 Liam O'Neill
- 6 T. J. Gilmore
- 7 Johnny Hughes
- 8 Willie Joyce
- 9 Michael Rooney
- 10 Tom Naughton
- 11 Jimmy Duggan
- 12 P. Sands
- 13 Colie McDonagh
- 14 Liam Sammon
- 15 John Tobin
- Subs used
- J. Burke for C. McDonagh
Legacy
[edit]The players involved in the game organised a golden jubilee reunion in 2024.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final". 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Five other All-Ireland final Canal End penalty 'misses'". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 23 September 2005.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.