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.
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| Event | 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 26 September 1976 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Paddy Collins (Westmeath) | ||||||
| Attendance | 73,588 | ||||||
This was one of six All-Ireland SFC finals contested by both Dublin and Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider.[1]
Match
editThis year's final was played on 26 September.[2]
Summary
editDublin 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.[3] It was Dublin's first championship win over Kerry since 1934.[4][5]
Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this".[4]
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.[4]
Details
edit| 26 September 1976 Final |
Dublin | 3–8 – 0–10 | Kerry | Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 73,588 Referee: Paddy Collins (Westmeath) |
| J Keaveney 1–2, J McCarthy 1–1, B Mullins 1–1, B Brogan 0–1, A O'Toole 0–1, T Hanahoe 0–1, D Hickey 0–1 | M Sheehy 0–3, P Spillane 0–2, D Moran 0–2, M O'Sullivan 0–1, B Lynch 0–1, J Egan 0–1 |
         Dublin
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    Kerry
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Dublin
edit- 1 P. Cullen
- 2 G. O'Driscoll
- 3 S. Doherty
- 4 R. Kelleher
- 5 T. Drumm
- 6 K. Moran
- 7 P. O'Neill
- 8 B. Mullins
- 9 B. Brogan
- 10 A. O'Toole
- 11 T. Hanahoe (c)
- 12 D. Hickey
- 13 B. Doyle
- 14 J. Keaveney
- 15 J. McCarthy
- Subs used
- 19 F. Ryder for T. Hanahoe
- 20 P. Gogarty for B. Doyle
- Subs not used
- 16 J. Brogan
- 17 P. O'Reilly
- 18 P. Pocock
- 21 L. Deegan
- Manager
- K. Heffernan
Kerry
edit- 1 P. O'Mahony
- 2 G. O'Keeffe
- 3 J. O'Keeffe (c)
- 4 J. Deenihan
- 5 P. Ó Sé
- 6 T. Kennelly
- 7 G. Power
- 8 P. Lynch
- 9 P. McCarthy
- 10 D. Moran
- 11 M. Sheehy
- 12 M. O'Sullivan
- 13 B. Lynch
- 14 J. Egan
- 15 P. Spillane
- Subs used
- 21 C. Nelligan for P. O'Mahony
- 16 S. Walsh for P. McCarthy
- 17 G. O'Driscoll for M. O'Sullivan
- Subs not used
- 18 J. Long
- 19 A. O'Keeffe
- 20 J. Walsh
- 22 V. O'Connor
- 23 B. Walsh
- Manager
- M. O'Dwyer
References
edit- ↑ Crowe, Dermot (30 March 2025). "Marching on together". Sunday Independent.
From 1974 to 1986, every final had Kerry or Dublin in it and in six of those they were the final pairing. They shared every All-Ireland going in that time save for Offaly's famous heist of 1982.
- ↑ The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES. DBA. 2021. p. 152.
- ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- 1 2 3 Hogan, Vincent (31 August 2019). "Kingdom's appetite for mischief can still spook the finest Dublin has to offer". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ↑ "Flashback - 1976 All-Ireland SFC Final: Dublin v Kerry". GAA.ie. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.