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.
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.
Match This year's final was played on 22 September.
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.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park.
It was Galway's second consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland SFC final; they lost to Cork in 1973.
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.
Details
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.
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