Date 22 September 1974 Attendance 71,898 | Venue Croke Park, Dublin | |
Event 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||
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.
It was Galway's second consecutive All-Ireland football final; they lost to Cork in 1973.
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1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA