1981 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final
| Event | 1981 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 6 September 1981 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Frank Murphy (Cork) | ||||||
| Attendance | 71,348 | ||||||
The 1981 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 94th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1981 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 6 September 1981, between Galway and Offaly. The reigning champions lost to their Leinster opponents, who won their first senior hurling title, on a score line of 2-12 to 0-15.
Johnny Flaherty scored a handpassed goal in this game; this was before the handpassed goal was ruled out of the game as hurling's technical standards improved.[1]
Match details
      Offaly |
 Galway |
References
- ^ Crowe, Dermot (8 September 2019). "Breaking new ground on final day as Kilkenny look to bury pain of defeat". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
...the handpassed goal, which was once allowed in the men's game, hard as it is to believe now. In 1981 Johnny Flaherty won Offaly's first All-Ireland with one such score.