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 The 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 44th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners of the competition. Results Connacht Senior Football Championship ---- ---- An objection ...

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

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Match

Summary

Monaghan scored first but Kerry won comprehensively with goals by

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, John Joe Sheehy (captain of the team) and Ned Sweeney. It was the first of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s. This was also the first Championship meeting of Kerry and Monaghan. It remains Monaghan's only final appearance. Monaghan's goalkeeper for this game, Thomas Bradley, was a

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veteran who had been at the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Passchendaele.

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