1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event	1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date	22 September 1974
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	Paddy Delvin (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.

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.^[1] The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park.^[2]

It was Galway's second consecutive All-Ireland football final; they lost to Cork in 1973.^[3]

References[]

^ 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

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

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

[3] 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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