1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (18th win)
CaptainJohn Dowling
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamDublin
CaptainDenis Mahony
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterDublin
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
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The 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 69th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Meath were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Dublin in the Leinster final.

Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]

Note Quarter Finals were back in the Munster championship but Clare only skipped 1 year. Limerick, not part of the championship between 1953 and 1964, were approved to host Waterford in the Quarter Final but did not play them due to a dispute over the eligibility of players.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway0-3 – 1-6Roscommon
Mayo3-11 – 0-9Leitrim
P Solan (0-2), D O’Neill (0-3), S O’Donnell (0-1); M Flanagan (0-1), T Langan (1-0), J Curran (2-4, two points from frees).
Attendance: 3,431
Sligo0-4 – 1-8Roscommon
Attendance: 6,400
Mayo3-11 – 1-3Roscommon
J Nallen (0-1), T Langan (2-1), S O’Donnell (1-1), D O’Neill (0-2), J Curran (0-6, four frees).
Attendance: 18,500
Referee: P. Carrol (Offaly)

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Westmeath0-7 – 0-6Wicklow
Louth1-3 – 0-5Longford
Kildare1-6 – 1-5Wexford
P.Moore 1-0, S.Harrison, D.Dalton 0-2, J.Gough, L.McCormack 0-1.
Dublin3-9 – 0-6Carlow
Meath3-4 – 2-7Kildare
J.Daly, P.Mooney 1-0, S.Harrison (2f), T.McCarthy 0-2, D.Dalton, S.Moore, M.Doyle 0-1.
Offaly5-12 – 0-7Louth
Attendance: 16075
Referee: W Goodison (Wexford)
Meath1-9 – 0-11Kildare
S.Harrison 0-6, P.Mooney 0-3, D.Dalton 0-2.
Meath0-10 – 1-6Westmeath
Dublin2-3 – 1-9Offaly
Attendance: 20680
Referee: W Goodison (Wexford)
Dublin5-12 - 0-7Meath
Kevin Heffernan 2-0, Ollie Freaney 0-5 (0-3f), Sean O'Boyle 1-3, Cathal O'Leary 1-2, Des Ferguson 1-1, Padraig Haughey 0-1 Tom Duff 0-3 (0-2f), Brian Smyth 0-2, Frankie Byrne (0-1f) and Tom O'Brien 0-1 each
Attendance: 48,860
Referee: Bill Goodison (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Clare back in the Munster championship after 1 year break football again but even Limerick didn't take part between (1953-1964) there were approved to host Waterford in the Quarter Final but didn't take part The Limerick vs. Waterford was cancelled due to a dispute over the eligibility of players.

Waterfordw/o - scr.Limerick
Clare1-10 – 0-7Tipperary
Referee: J. Collins (L)
Cork2-8 – 0-7Tipperary
D. Kellaher (0-4), E. Ryan (0-1), J. Creedon (2-2) & D. O’Donovan (0-1).
Referee: J. Goode (W)
Kerry3-7 – 0-4Waterford
B. Buckley (1-0), T. Lyne (0-3), G. O'Sullivan (0-1), M. Murphy (0-1) & T. Costelloe (2-2).
Kerry0-14 – 2-6Cork
J. Dowling (0-1), P. Sheehy (0-5), T.Lyne (0-4), G. O'Sullivan (0-1), M. Murphy (0-2) & D. McAuliffe (0-1). N. Duggan (0-1), D. Kellaher (0-2), J. Creedon (0-1), D. O’Donovan (0-1) & J. O’Donovan (2-2).

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry0-13 – 1-5Tyrone
Attendance: 4,500
Donegal3-8 – 2-8Monaghan
Attendance: 4,500
Armagh1-8 – 0-5Down
Cavan1-10 – 2-1Antrim
P Donohoe (0-4), H Carolan (1-1), J Mc Donnell (0-1), B Gallagher (0-1), J Cusack (0-2), V Sherlock (0-1) K Armstrong (2-0), P O Hara (1-1)
Attendance: 6,120
Armagh0-2 – 3-4Derry
Cavan2-5 – 1-6Donegal
P Donohoe (0-2), V Sherlock (0-1), J Cusack (1-1), B Deignan (1-0), C Smith (0-1) A Briody (0-1), H Boyle (0-2), S Mc Cormack (0-3), P Coyle (1-0)
Attendance: 10,124
Cavan0-11 – 0-8Derry
P Donohoe (0-8), B Gallagher (0-2), J Hardy (0-1) M Gribben (0-1), R Gribben (0-3), F Niblock (0-1), J Mc Keever (0-3)
Attendance: 24,800

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry2-10 – 1-13Cavan
J. Dowling (0-1), T. Moriarty (0-1) T. Lyne (1-6), J. Culloty (0-1), M. Murphy (1-0) & D. McAuliffe (0-1). P Donohoe (0-9), H Carolan (0-2), Gallagher (0-1), P Smith (1-0), Keyes (0-1)
Attendance: 41,278
Dublin0-7 – 1-4Mayo
M Flanagan (0-1), T Langan (1-1), J Curran (0-2, frees)
Attendance: 60,595
Referee: Peter McDermott (Meath)
Kerry4-7 – 0-5Cavan
P. Sheehy (0-2), J. J. Sheehan (1-0), T. Lyne (0-5), J. Culloty (1-0) & Mick Murphy (2-0). P Donohoe (0-5)
Attendance: 71,504
Dublin1-8 – 1-7Mayo
J Curran (1-7, four frees).
Attendance: 71,504
Main article: 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry0-12 – 1-6Dublin
J. Dowling (0-1), P. Sheehy (0-1), T. Lyne (0-6), M. Murphy (0-1) & J. Brosnan (0-2). O. Freaney 1-3, J. Boyle 0-2 & H. Hefferan 0-1.
Attendance: 87,102
Referee: Willie Goodison ( Wexford)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Even though Limerick did not take part in the Munster football championship between 1953 and 1964, they were scheduled to host Waterford but failed. The Limerick vs. Waterford match in the 1955 Munster Football Championship was cancelled due to a dispute over the eligibility of players. Clare returned to the championship after a skip year.
  • Markievicz Park, Sligo was named after a woman of the 1916 uprising called Constance Markievicz.
  • Both of the All Ireland semi-finals end in a draw and go to a replay.
  • Dublin win their first Leinster title since 1942 and reach their first All Ireland final since that same year but are narrowly beaten by Kerry.

References

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  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)