Football match
The 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 43rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1930 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship , an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland .
Match
Summary
Monaghan scored first but Kerry won comprehensively with goals by John Joe Landers , John Joe Sheehy (who was captain of the team) and Ned Sweeney .
It was the first of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s.
This was also the first Championship meeting of Kerry and Monaghan. It remains Monaghan's only final appearance.
Monaghan's goalkeeper for this game, Thomas Bradley, was a First World War veteran who had been at the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Passchendaele .
Details
28 September 1930 Final
Kerry 3-11 – 0-2 Monaghan
J J Landers 2-3, N Sweeney 1-0, J J Sheehy, J Ryan 0-3 each, M Doyle 0-2
Croke Park , Dublin Attendance: 33,280Referee: Jim Byrne (Wexford)
References
High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
"Kerry on honour roll" . Irish Independent "Kerry full-house awaits Kilkenny" . Irish Independent "WW1 and the GAA - Thomas Bradley" . 6 November 2018.
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