2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

2014 All-Ireland Football Championship final
Event2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry Donegal
2–9
(15)		 0–12
(12)
Date21 September 2014
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Man of the MatchPaul Murphy[1]
RefereeEddie Kinsella (Laois)[2][3][4]
WeatherPartly cloudy
17 °C (63 °F) [5]
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The 2014 All-Ireland Football Championship final, the culmination of the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, was played at Croke Park in Dublin on 21 September 2014. Ulster champions Donegal, last champions in 2012 took on Munster champions Kerry, last champions in 2009.

Both sides defeated the previous year's finalists Dublin and Mayo in their semi-finals to set up this match between "the two great football outposts of the west-coast extremities".[6][7][8] This was their first encounter on All-Ireland final day, and only the second in 127 years of Championship history, Donegal having defeated Kerry in their previous encounter at the 2012 quarter-final stage.[9] Kerry narrowly won a close game which ended with a scoreline of 2-9 to 0-12.[10][11]

The game was televised nationally on RTÉ2 as part of The Sunday Game live programme, presented by Michael Lyster from Croke Park, with studio analysis from Joe Brolly, Ciarán Whelan and Colm O'Rourke — the last time until 2019 that the Brolly-O'Rourke-Pat Spillane axis was broken up for live coverage of an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.[12]

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  2. ^ "Laois whistler Eddie Kinsella to ref Kerry-Donegal final". RTÉ Sport. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 8 September 2012. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  3. ^ "GAA: Eddie Kinsella to referee the All-Ireland SFC final between Kerry and Donegal". Sky Sports. 8 September 2012. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Eddie Kinsella to referee Kerry and Donegal in the All-Ireland senior football final". The Score. 8 September 2012. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Daily Data". Met Eireann. 21 September 2014. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  6. ^ Moran, Seán (1 September 2014). "Exceptional display by Donegal bursts Dublin's bubble: Jim McGuinness's team rediscover the spirit of 2012 but champions fail to rise to challenge". The Irish Times. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2014. All that remained were the increasingly frantic efforts by Dublin to score something but so wild was the finishing that wides outnumbered scores – a sobering end to what had been expected to be the county's first back-to-back season in 37 years. Instead the two great football outposts of the west-coast extremities will meet for the first time in an All-Ireland final.
  7. ^ "Kerry beat Mayo in replay thriller to grab final spot". RTÉ Sport. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 30 August 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  8. ^ Harkin, Greg (31 August 2014). "Written off by everyone – but Donegal tear up the script". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  9. ^ "5 talking points after Donegal stunned the Dubs in Croke Park". The Score. 31 August 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  10. ^ "As it happened: Kerry 2-9 Donegal 0-12". Irish Independent. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  11. ^ "As It Happened: Kerry v Donegal, All-Ireland senior football final". The Score. 21 September 2014. Archived from the original on 22 September 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  12. ^ Fogarty, John (11 September 2019). "Brolly now on the sidelines for biggest day of the GAA year". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 11 September 2019. Last Sunday week [1 September 2019] was the first time since 2014 that the long-standing triumvirate of Brolly, O'Rourke, and Pat Spillane was broken up. For the Kerry-Donegal decider five years ago, Whelan took the place of Spillane on the live panel alongside Brolly and O'Rourke.