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.
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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 final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final again until 2011.
Pre-match
editOn 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
editSummary
editKerry 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 football 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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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.