1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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| Event | 1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 27 September 1936 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Sean McCarthy (Kerry) | ||||||
| Attendance | 50,168 | ||||||
| Weather | Sun[1] | ||||||
The 1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 49th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match
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[edit]Seamus O'Malley, a native of Lavalley, Ballinrobe, was captain of the victorious team.
Henry Kenny, father of the future Taoiseach Enda Kenny, was on the winning Mayo team.
Paddy Munnelly scored a hat-trick as Mayo coasted to an easy victory. Laois's Bill Delaney played with two broken bones in his foot.[2][3]
This was Mayo's first All-Ireland victory. Two more would follow by mid-century.
Details
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        Mayo
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  Laois
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Mayo =
- 1 T. Burke
- 2 J. McGowan
- 3 P. Quinn
- 4 P. Kelly
- 5 T. Regan
- 6 S. O'Malley (c)
- 7 G. Ormsby
- 8 P. Flannelly
- 9 H. Kenny
- 10 J. Carney
- 11 P. Laffey
- 12 T. Grier
- 13 J. Munnelly
- 14 P. Moclair
- 15 P. Munnelly
- Subs not used
- 16 P. Collins
- 17 M. Joyce
- 18 P. Brett
- 19 T. McNicholas
- 20 G. Courell
- 21 M. O'Malley
- 22 R. Winters
- 23 B. Mongey
References
[edit]- ^ "1936 All Ireland Senior Football Final - Laois v Mayo" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Mayo win their first All-Ireland - eir GAA". Archived from the original on 25 October 2016.