The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 88th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the

1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 89th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 25 May 1975 and en ...

, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in

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. On the train to Dublin, Kerry manager

Mick O'Dwyer Michael O'Dwyer (born 9 June 1936) is an Irish retired Gaelic football manager and former player. He most famously managed the senior Kerry county team between 1974 and 1989, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager an ...

and his players spoke to journalists. Jim Farrelly quoted O'Dwyer in the '' Sunday Independent'' as advocating a marriage ban for his players. "Marriage puts players back in their game". Kerry player

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was photographed during the train trip alongside his sister Patricia and said to Farrelly: "Four of us erry playersare PE teachers. Saying 'no' to girls and drink and high Kerry social life has been hard!". John Egan and substitute Ger O'Driscoll scored goals for a surprise win. Yet it was no surprise. The train trip (above) revealed the inaccuracy of the callow reputation in which Kerry often indulged. And ahead of the game Dublin were 4/5, Kerry 5/4 in the betting

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. This was the second of four All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1970s.

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, aged 21 and later a Tipperary footballer, and his 50-year-old father Eddie McCarthy, became the first father-and-son pair to umpire at an All-Ireland final, doing so at the

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end of Croke Park.

References

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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals Dublin county football team matches Kerry county football team matches