The 2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured and . It was Cork's first final and Galway's second. Galway were also the reigning champions, having won the 2004 final. Galway led 0–4 to 0–3 at half-time, but Player of the Match, Valerie Mulcahy, subsequently scored 1–5 to help Cork win their first All-Ireland title. Cork eventually won 1–11 to 0–8. It was also the first of five consecutive All-Ireland finals that Cork would win between 2005 and 2009.
The Galway team featured Annette Clarke as well as Claire Molloy, a future Ireland women's rugby union international, and Niamh Fahey, a future Republic of Ireland women's association football international.
Match info
Teams Manager: Éamonn Ryan
Team: Elaine Harte Bríd Stack Angela Walsh Rena Buckley Briege Corkery Ciara Walsh S. O'Reilly Juliet Murphy (c) Norita Kelly Amanda Murphy Regina Curtin Nollaig Cleary Valerie Mulcahy Caoimhe Creedon Geraldine O'Flynn
Substitutes:Mary O'Connor for O’Flynn (27)Deirdre O'Reilly for Creedon (40)A O'Connor for Curtin (55)N Keohane for A. Murphy (62)Manager: Richard Bowles
Team: Una Carroll M. Glynn Ruth Stephens Anne-Marie McDonough Marie O'Connell Aoibheann Daly (c) Emer Flaherty Annette Clarke Edel Concannon Geraldine Conneally Niamh Duggan Philomena Ni Fhlatharta Rebecca McPhilbin Niamh Fahey Lorna Joyce
Substitutes:Patricia Gleeson for Joyce (41)Claire Molloy for McDonough (44)Lisa Cohill for McPhilbin (52)
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