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 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]
Details
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References
- ^ 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).
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.