1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final explained

1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event:1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Team1score:3–8
(17)
Team2score:0–10
(10)
Date:26 September 1976
Stadium:Croke Park
City:Dublin
Referee:Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
Attendance:73,588
Previous:1975
Next:1977

The 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 89th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Dublin won the second of the famous Kerry–Dublin 1970s duels with a seven-point win, goals coming from John McCarthy, Jimmy Keaveney, and Brian Mullins.[1] It was Dublin's first championship win over Kerry since 1934.[2]

Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this".[3]

Kerry blamed a cancelled training session. The players asked for this because of "fatigue" though they also wished to take up a Beamish and Crawford invitation to the Tralee Races.[3]

Notes and References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. Web site: Flashback - 1976 All-Ireland SFC Final: Dublin v Kerry. 6 April 2020. GAA.ie. 16 April 2020.
  3. News: Vincent. Hogan. Vincent Hogan. Kingdom's appetite for mischief can still spook the finest Dublin has to offer. Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 31 August 2019. 31 August 2019.