1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final | |
Event: | 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship |
Team1score: | 0–14 (14) |
Team2score: | 1–6 (9) |
Date: | 22 September 1974 |
Stadium: | Croke Park |
City: | Dublin |
Referee: | Paddy Devlin (Tyrone) |
Attendance: | 71,898 |
Previous: | 1973 |
Next: | 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]
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.[4]