{"id":569815,"date":"2026-07-27T03:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569815\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:47:20","slug":"christy-oconnor-mayos-darby-day-and-the-biggest-all-ireland-final-shock-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569815\/","title":{"rendered":"Christy O&#8217;Connor: Mayo\u2019s Darby Day and the biggest All-Ireland final shock in history\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Prior to yesterday, the most famous All-Ireland final of all \u2013 the Offaly-Kerry 1982 decider \u2013 was the most famous for obvious reasons; Seamus Darby\u2019s iconic late goal and how it denied Kerry their five-in-a-row immortality. That level of history, and how Offaly shaped it, was always going to attach an unmatched status to the game, but the aura around it was inflated by the shock factor of the result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was the biggest shock in modern history but how much of an upset was it either? Offaly had lost to Kerry in the previous year\u2019s final, while they racked up 4-10 against Mick O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s side in the 1980 semi-final. Could the heavy hand of history potentially weigh down one of the greatest teams of all time? It did that afternoon in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4976285_1_org_Irish_Examiner_modal.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \tUnlimited access starts here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">Try from only  \u20ac0.25 a day.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to yesterday, the most famous All-Ireland final of all \u2013 the Offaly-Kerry 1982 decider \u2013 was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[217463,177329,4365,6937,61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-569815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-ireland-football-final","tag-championship-2026","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}