On the eve of Limerick v Waterford, a very long thread on last December All-Ireland final — the last of 12 December deciders that took place on 14 December, 1924 between Dublin and Galway & was remarkable on many, many different levels.

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On the eve of Limerick v Waterford, a very long thread on last December All-Ireland final — the last of 12 December deciders that took place on 14 December, 1924 between Dublin and Galway & was remarkable on many, many different levels.1/18
On the eve of Limerick v Waterford, a very long thread on last December All-Ireland final — the last of 12 December deciders that took place on 14 December, 1924 between Dublin and Galway & was remarkable on many, many different levels.1/18
Galway were defending champions, winning 1923 final only three months to the day previously. They beat Limerick by 7-3 to 4-5 & were attempting to become the first since Kilkenny in 1912 to win two All-Irelands in the same calendar year.

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Within a couple of weeks of the win Dublin approached Galway’s star player Mick Gill & asked him to declare to Dublin & he made his debut in the Leinster final against Offaly, just six weeks after winning his All-Ireland.

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Dublin then beat Antrim in the All-Ireland semi-final, while Galway beat Tipperary to set up the first ever championship meeting between the sides when Gill was up against his team-mates of only a few months previously.

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Dublin then beat Antrim in the All-Ireland semi-final, while Galway beat Tipperary to set up the first ever championship meeting between the sides when Gill was up against his team-mates of only a few months previously. 4/18
Dublin then beat Antrim in the All-Ireland semi-final, while Galway beat Tipperary to set up the first ever championship meeting between the sides when Gill was up against his team-mates of only a few months previously. 4/18
There were no native-born Dubliners on the Dublin starting team — they were a League of Nations side with players from Tipperary (4), Clare (3), Kilkenny (3), Laois (3), Galway (1) & Limerick (1).

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As Dublin champions the Kickhams club had the picking of the Dublin team — this was the first time in 35 years that they had his honour, in 1889 the Kickhams beat a Clare team from Tulla that played the final in Inchicore in their bare feet.

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The 1924 Dublin 15: T Daly (Clare) J Bannon (Tipp), W Small (Tipp), T Kelly (Laois), M Gill (Gal), J Walsh (Kilk), B Mocker (Tipp), P Aylward (Kilk), R Doherty (Clare), M Holland (Clare), D O’Neill (Laois), G Howard (Lim), T Barry (Tipp), W Banim (Tipp), T Finlay (Laois).

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The game was refereed by Paddy O’Keeffe — then secretary of Cork GAA & later General Secretary of the GAA for 35 years from 1929 to ’64 making him the longest ever to serve in the role.

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Tulla's Tommy Daly, once famously ‘described as the greatest goalman to ever clutch a ball’ by Bryan MacMahon was one of 3 Claremen on the team. The others were Newmarket's Rob Doherty & Whitegate's Michael Holland who emerged as a big hero of the All-Ireland win.

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The Dubs won the game by 5-3 to 2-6 — Holland got two of the goals, while the others were scored by Tom Barry, Garret Howard & Willie Banim.

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The Dubs won the game by 5-3 to 2-6 — Holland got two of the goals, while the others were scored by Tom Barry, Garret Howard & Willie Banim.10/18
The Dubs won the game by 5-3 to 2-6 — Holland got two of the goals, while the others were scored by Tom Barry, Garret Howard & Willie Banim.10/18
The captain Frank Wall from Kilkenny was presented with the Liam McCarthy Cup by GAA presient PD Breen, himself an All-Ireland winning footballer with Wexford. What made it unique was that he was a non-playing captain.

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For Mick Gill, his place in GAA history was assured with the win as he won two All-Irelands in the same year (within three months) with two different teams. Years later he said ‘if I had been playing for Galway I honestly think that they would have beaten Dublin’.

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The winning Dubs mightn’t have been as celebrated as the 1927 Dubs - ‘Galacticos’ described by PD Mehigan, aka Carbery (pic) as ‘the best 15 hurlers who have ever contested a final’ but by the end of their careers the 1924 team had 35 All-Ireland medals between them.

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Dublin also created GAA history in 1924 — winning All-Ireland hurling & football finals in the same calendar year. The footballers had earlier beaten Kerry 1-5 to 1-3 in the 1923 final that wasn’t played until September 1924.

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Dublin also created GAA history in 1924 — winning All-Ireland hurling & football finals in the same calendar year. The footballers had earlier beaten Kerry 1-5 to 1-3 in the 1923 final that wasn’t played until September 1924.14/18
Dublin also created GAA history in 1924 — winning All-Ireland hurling & football finals in the same calendar year. The footballers had earlier beaten Kerry 1-5 to 1-3 in the 1923 final that wasn’t played until September 1924.14/18
Dublin also created GAA history in 1924 — winning All-Ireland hurling & football finals in the same calendar year. The footballers had earlier beaten Kerry 1-5 to 1-3 in the 1923 final that wasn’t played until September 1924.14/18
And five of the hurling team had the distinction of winning All-Irelands with different counties — as mentioned earlier Mick Gill (Galway), as well as Rob Doherty (Clare), Pat Aylward (Kilkenny), Garret Howard (Limerick) & Tom Finlay (Laois) pictured.

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And out on his own in terms of All-Irelands was Howard who won five All-Irelands — two with Dublin in ’24 & 27, as well as three with Limerick in ’21, ’34 & ’36. And he also played championship hurling with Tipperary.

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Meanwhile, Tommy Daly became the most decorated Dublin hurler ever, winning four All-Irelands - '17, '20, '24 & '27. When he made a great save in '27 final, Carbery said in RTÉ's 1st ever final commmentary, 'Oh Daly, oh Daly, oh Daly, wonderful'.

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Finally, the 1924 final rounded off a hectic hurling year. Apart from the two All-Irelands there was also the Tailteann Games when an Ireland team with three Dubs in Jim ‘Builder’ Walsh, Tom Kelly & Howard played against America in the Irish version of the Olympics.

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