1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Football match
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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.
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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 | ||||||
| Weather | Dry | ||||||
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
This year's final was played on 22 September.[3]
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.[4] The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park.[5]
It was Galway's second consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland SFC final; they lost to Cork in 1973.[6]
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 |
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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
The players involved in the game organised a golden jubilee reunion in 2024.[7]