1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event	1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date	22 September 1974
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)
Attendance	71,898
	← 1973 1975 →

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.

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.^[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]

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

Dublin

Galway

Dublin =

Subs not used: 16 B. Pocock; 17 B. Donovan; 18 D. Billings; 19 K. Synnott; 20 P. Gogarty; 21 L. Deegan; 22 P. O'Neill; 23 J. Brogan; 24 F. Ryder

Manager: K. Heffernan

Galway =

Subs used: J. Burke for C. McDonagh

References

^ ^a ^b "An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final". 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
^ 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.

External links

All-Ireland Football Final, 1974: Dublin V Galway on YouTube

[Tyrone_GAA_2022-1] "An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final". 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.

[2] High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.

[3] "Five other All-Ireland final Canal End penalty 'misses'". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 23 September 2005.

[4] 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.

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