The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final was the second All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1975 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, an inter-county ladies' Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Tipperary retained the title with an easy win, becoming the only county to take the first two All-Ireland senior titles.
Background The Ladies' Gaelic Football Association had been founded a year earlier, on 18 July 1974, at Hayes' Hotel, Thurles; Tipperary's Jim Kennedy was elected its first president, and Offaly businessman Brendan Martin donated the trophy that bears his name. The number of counties competing rose from eight in the inaugural 1974 championship to twelve in 1975.
Tipperary, the defending champions, won the Munster title and defeated Offaly 3–6 to 2–2 in the All-Ireland semi-final at St John's Park, Kilkenny. Galway won the first Connacht senior championship, beating Roscommon 2–1 to 1–3 in the provincial final, and then defeated Ulster champions Cavan in the All-Ireland semi-final at Cusack Park, Mullingar, to reach their first All-Ireland final.
Match The senior final was preceded by a curtain-raiser in which a Tipperary under-16 team, playing its first inter-county game, held a more experienced Kilkenny side to a draw. Tipperary were captained by Margaret Carroll of Ardfinnan, who had featured on the 1974 winning team, while Galway were captained by Nono McHugh. Tipperary's trainer was John Aylmer of Emly, and the team had used the pitch at Rockwell College to prepare for the game; Galway were trained by Tom Sands of Ballygar, a three-time All-Ireland winner with the Galway men's team of the mid-1960s.
Aftermath Tipperary County Board chairman Jim Kennedy's report on the final ended: "Thanks very much girls the hat-trick is coming up." The three-in-a-row did not materialise; Kerry beat Offaly in the 1976 final to begin their own long period of dominance in the championship. Tipperary reached two further finals in this era, losing to Roscommon in 1978 and to Offaly in 1979.
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