Valentia GAA club, 1, 2
Walsh Island GAA club, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Walsh, David, 1, 2
Walsh, Sean, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Waterford team, 1
Waterville GAA club, 1
Weldrick, Dave, 1, 2
Western Bulldogs team, 1
Westmeath team, 1, 2
Westmeath–Offaly Independent, 1
Wexford team, 1, 2
Whelan, Martin, 1
Whyte, Gerald, 1, 2
Wright, Mick, 1, 2, 3
Wynne, Dinny, 1
Kerry team before the 1982 All-Ireland football final. Back row (l to r): Jack O’Shea, Paudie Lynch, Eoin Liston, John O’Keeffe, Charlie Nelligan, Tim Kennelly, Tom Spillane, Sean Walsh. Front Row (l to r): Mikey Sheehy, Páidí Ó Sé, Tommy Doyle, John Egan (capt), Ger O’Keeffe, Ger Power, Denis ‘Ogie’ Moran. (Photo: Don MacMonagle)
Offaly team before the 1982 All-Ireland football final. Back row (l to r): Sean Lowry, Gerry Carroll, Padraic Dunne, Liam O’Connor, Liam Currams, Matt Connor, Tomás O’Connor. Front Row (l to r): Michael Fitzgerald, Pat Fitzgerald, Martin Furlong, Richie Connor (capt), John Guinan, Johnny Mooney, Brendan Lowry, Michael Lowry. (Photo: Joe O’Sullivan)
Martin Furlong, Seamus Darby and Richie Connor get ready for training at Ballycommon. (Photo: Offaly Archaeological and Historical Society)
Offaly captain Richie Connor shakes hands with Kerry captain John Egan with referee PJ McGrath. (Photo: Sportsfile)
Kerry’s Jimmy Deenihan clears his lines during the 1982 National Football League semi-final against Armagh. A few months later, Deenihan’s season and his career would be ended by a terrible leg injury. (Photos: Don MacMonagle)
Kerry’s John Egan prepares to shoot as the rain pelts down during the second half of the All-Ireland final as Offaly’s Stephen Darby closes in. (Photos: Don MacMonagle)
Contrary to every instruction he had received in the previous few weeks, Offaly’s Liam Currams hares downfield to score the first point of the final, leaving Sean Walsh, Ger Power and Páidí Ó Sé in his wake. (Photo: Sportsfile)
Kerry’s Tommy Doyle bursts out ahead of Offaly’s John Guinan. (Photo: Sportsfile) 4
John O’Keeffe, Kerry’s imperious full-back, during the 1982 Munster football final against Cork. 1982 would prove to be O’Keeffe’s last All-Ireland final with Kerry. (Photo: Sportsfile)
Offaly goalkeeper Martin Furlong evades the attentions of Kerry’s Tom Spillane (11) and Eoin Liston during the last frantic minutes of the All-Ireland final.
The goal. (Photos: Sportsfile)
The goal. (Photos: Sportsfile)
(Photos: Don MacMonagle)
Kerry officials Sean Kelly and Gerald Whyte console devastated Kerry manager Mick O’Dwyer at the final whistle. (Photo: Don MacMonagle)
Offaly captain Richie Connor raises the Sam Maguire Cup behind a scrum of delirious Offaly players in the Hogan Stand. (Photo: Sportsfile)
About the Author
MICHAEL FOLEY has worked as GAA correspondent for the Sunday Times for the past seven years, working principally on Gaelic football. He has also previously written for the Sunday Tribune and a variety of national newspapers and publications, and was nominated for an ESB Sports Journalist of the Year Award in 2003 for his writing on Gaelic games. The 1982 All-Ireland football final stands out as his earliest sporting memory, which he watched in front of the television while eating fish fingers for his tea. Now aged thirty, and originally from Killavullen, Co Cork, Michael lives in Dublin. This is his first book.
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