1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

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.

1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date26 September 1976
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Attendance73,588

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]

References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. 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.
  3. "Flashback - 1976 All-Ireland SFC Final: Dublin v Kerry". GAA.ie. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
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