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Football match
1936 All-Ireland
Senior Football Championship final
Event1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Mayo Laois
4–11
(23)
0–5
(5)
Date27 September 1936
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereeSean McCarthy (Kerry)
Attendance50,168
WeatherSun
1935 1937

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.

Seamus O'Malley, a native of Lavalley, Ballinrobe, was captain of the victorious 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.

Henry Kenny, father of the future Taoiseach Enda Kenny, was on the winning Mayo team.

This was Mayo's first All-Ireland victory.

Match details

Laois team, runners-up
Mayo v Laois

Final
Mayo 4–11 0–5 Laois
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: Sean McCarthy (Kerry)
Attendance: 50,168
Mayo Laois

References

  1. "1936 All Ireland Senior Football Final - Laois v Mayo" – via www.youtube.com.
  2. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. "Mayo win their first All-Ireland - eir GAA". Archived from the original on 25 October 2016.

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