1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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| Event | 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 22 September 1985 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Paddy Kavanagh (Meath)[1] | ||||||
| Attendance | 69,389 | ||||||
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.
The final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland SFC final again until 2011.
Pre-match
[edit]On the morning of the game, Kerry manager Mick O'Dwyer and his players featured in an advertisement for Bendix washing machines, with the line "Only Bendix could whitewash this lot".[2]
Match
[edit]Summary
[edit]Kerry led by nine points at half-time, and two Joe McNally goals in the second half was not enough to stop them.[3]
Jack O'Shea picked the ball up with wonderful skill in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh, who proceeded to marvel at the Kerryman's abilities.[1]
It was the fourth of five All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1980s.[4]
Details
[edit]| Kerry | 2–12 – 2–8 | Dublin |
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| J O'Shea 1–3, T O'Dowd 1–1, M Sheehy 0–3, T Doyle 0–1, J Kennedy 0–1, P Spillane 0–2 D Moran 0–1 | J McNally 2–0, B Rock 0–3, T Conroy 0–2, J Kearns 0–2, T Carr 0–1 |
          Kerry
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    Dublin
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Kerry =
- 1 C. Nelligan
- 2 P. Ó Sé (c)
- 3 S. Walsh
- 4 M. Spillane
- 5 T. Doyle
- 6 T. Spillane
- 7 G. Lynch
- 8 J. O'Shea
- 9 A. O'Donovan
- 10 T. O'Dowd
- 11 D. Moran
- 12 P. Spillane
- 13 M. Sheehy
- 14 E. Liston
- 15 G. Power
- Sub used
- 17 J. Kennedy for G. Power
- Subs not used
- 16 J. Higgins
- 18 G. O'Sullivan
- 19 J. Mulvihill
- 20 S. Liston
- 21 D. Hanafin
- 22 D. O'Donoghue
- 23 J. Keane
- 24 L. Kearns
- Manager
- M. O'Dwyer
Dublin =
- 1 J. O'Leary
- 2 M. Kennedy
- 3 G. Hargan
- 4 R. Hazley
- 5 P. Canavan
- 6 N. McCaffrey
- 7 D. Synnott
- 8 J. Ronayne
- 9 B. Mullins (c)
- 10 B. Rock
- 11 T. Conroy
- 12 C. Redmond
- 13 J. Kearns
- 14 J. McNally
- 15 K. Duff
- Subs used
- 20 T. Carr for C. Redmond
- 17 P. J. Buckley for B. Mullins
- Manager
- K. Heffernan
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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).
- ^ "Dean caught between a Rock and a hard place over training sessions". RTÉ. 23 July 2020.
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.