The 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 83rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match Summary
Kerry won convincingly, with late goals by Din Joe Crowley and Mick Gleeson.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
It was the first of four All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1970s.
Details
Kerry 1 J. Culloty 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 D. O'Sullivan (c) 5 T. Prendergast 6 J. O'Keeffe 7 M. Ó Sé 8 M. O'Connell 9 D. J. Crowley 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 M. Gleeson 14 L. Higgins 15 M. O'Dwyer
Sub used 16 S. Mac Gearailt
Subs not used 17 D. Crowley 18 P. J. Burns 19 T. O'Donnell 20 P. Finnegan Seán O'Shea was retrospectively awarded a medal in 2025; in 1970 not all nonplaying subs were entitled to a medal. O'Shea's application relied on the precedent of Mick Loftus, retrospectively awarded a medal as a nonplaying sub in the 1951 final.
Trainer J. Lyne
Meath 1 S. McCormack 2 M. White 3 J. Quinn (c) 4 B. Cunningham 5 O. Shanley 6 T. Kearns 7 P. Reynolds 8 V. Foley 9 V. Lynch 10 T. Brennan 11 M. Kerrigan 12 M. Mellett 13 K. Rennicks 14 J. Murphy 15 M. Fay
Subs used 19 P. Moore for M. Mellett 22 B. Bligh for T. Kearns
Subs not used 16 E. McMahon 17 P. Black 18 F. Ward 20 C. Bowens 21 J. Fay 23 M. Costello 24 A. Burns 25 D. Gogarty 26 T. Brannigan
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