1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin Galway
0–14
(14)		 1–6
(9)
Date22 September 1974
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePaddy Devlin (Tyrone)[1]
Attendance71,898
← 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.

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]

Match 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.

References

  1. ^ a b "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.