1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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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 | ||||||
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][3]
Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan declared: "I've waited 21 years for this".[2]
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.[2]
Match details
| 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 |
    Kerry
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References
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ a b c 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.