1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final


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.
Jack O'Shea picked the ball with his hands directly from the ground in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh.
It was the fourth of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1980s.

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