 Ball used in the 1974 Ladies Football Final, signed by Tipperary team and management (Tipperary Museum of Hidden History) | |||||||
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| Tipperary win the inaugural title. | |||||||
| Date | 13 October 1974 | ||||||
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| Venue | Durrow, County Laois | ||||||
| Referee | Paul O'Sullivan (Kerry) | ||||||
1975 → | |||||||
The1974 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final was the firstAll-Ireland final. It featuredTipperary andOffaly. Tipperary won the final by 2–3 to 2–2. Towards the end of the first half, Tipperary were leading by 1–2 to 0–0. However within minutes of the restart Offaly took the lead with a goal. Tipperary came back and, with about eight minutes to go, went ahead with a point from a free. Brendan Martin, was a pioneering organiser ofladies' Gaelic football in bothOffaly andDublin, provided a trophy and it was presented to the Tipperary captain, Kitty Ryan, by the Offaly captain, Agnes O'Gorman. The trophy subsequently became known as the Brendan Martin Cup.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Brendan Martin died in 2024.
