2005 All Ireland Hurling Final match program Galway vs Kerry

4 days ago

A full twenty years ago

This is another post in my ongoing series about matches I have attended over the years. I often buy a match program when I attend a match, so I have something physical and tangible to remember the event with. This one is twenty years old, which is hard to believe. Time waits for no man!

I remember this final well and it resulted in heartbreak for my beloved Galway Hurling team.

If you regularly read my blog, you will know that I have done around ten posts in the last year on this topic, with a series of photos from each match that I look back on.

Where did these programs reappear out of after all these years? Let me tell you about it...

I happened upon a few old boxes in my parent's house with stuff from my childhood you see. Let me fill in the details in case you didn't read the other posts.

So, I called to see my folks and they weren't in. I was about to turn on my heel and go home, but my three boys were with me and asked if they could see my old room as they like to do sometimes, and so we popped upstairs in my parents house. The boys had a root around and asked some questions and then we found some stuff from my childhood.

There were old photos, sticker books, mementos and old equipment, including old cameras and a wireless as they were called then, we call them radios now. I got the old equipment handed down as I thought they looked really cool back in the day.

This post is about the match and racing programs I found and today it's about this match programme from 2005. It was an All All Ireland Hurling Final between my home county Galway and Cork.

The All Ireland final comes around once a year and is similar to the Super Bowl in American football or the FA Cup in Soccer.

I remember this game distinctly and Galway could have won the match, they had plenty of chances, but Cork were craftier on the day. The rock Diarmuid O'Sullivan and Pat Mulcahy had particularly good games and kept the Galway attack tamed.

The final score was:

Cork 1-21 - Galway 1-16

A look through the programme

It's always good craic reflecting back on these matches and the match program is a trip down memory lane from twenty years ago. So much has changed about Ireland since then.

Let's leaf through the pages now together.