1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 98th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date22 September 1985
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePaddy Kavanagh (Meath)[1]
Attendance69,389

The final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final again until 2011.

Match

Summary

Kerry led by nine points at half-time and two Joe McNally goals in the second half was not enough to stop them.[2]

Jack O'Shea picked the ball with his hands directly from the ground (a foul) in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh.[1]

It was the fourth of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1980s.[3]

References

  1. Potts, Seán. "Blue Wave begins". Decades of the Dubs: 2010–2014. The Herald. p. 3. ...Jack O'Shea picking the ball clean off the ground in front of the ref (Kavanagh, Meath) in the 1985 final).
  2. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
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