The 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 43rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Event | 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 28 September 1930 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | Jim Byrne (Wexford) | ||||||
Attendance | 33,280 | ||||||
Match
editSummary
editMonaghan scored first but Kerry won comprehensively with goals by John Joe Landers, John Joe Sheehy (who was captain of the team) and Ned Sweeney.[1]
It was the first of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s.[2]
This was also the first Championship meeting of Kerry and Monaghan.[3] It remains Monaghan's only final appearance.
Monaghan's goalkeeper for this game, Thomas Bradley, was a First World War veteran who had been at the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Passchendaele.[4]
Details
editReferences
edit- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ^ "Kerry full-house awaits Kilkenny". Irish Independent. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ "WW1 and the GAA - Thomas Bradley". 6 November 2018.