1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
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| Event | 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 20 September 1992 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Manus Boyle | ||||||
| Referee | Tommy Sugrue (Kerry) | ||||||
| Attendance | 64,547 | ||||||
| Weather | Dry | ||||||
The 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 105th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
The shock result was hailed as one of the most unbelievable seen in Championship football at that time; Dublin entered the game as heavy favourites to take the Sam Maguire Cup over the River Liffey. Wild scenes were reported throughout the country for many months afterwards.
Donegal's triumph over the citizens inspired many other counties with little success at that time, including Derry, Armagh and Tyrone, to believe they could achieve the All-Ireland - these three counties achieved their dream in the next eleven years. Donegal's march to the title was still regarded nationally as an "almost mystical expedition", all those years later, until the arrival of the yet more enigmatic and impressive Jim McGuinness, who surpassed even this achievement.
Brian McEniff was the man in charge of Donegal that day, with a backroom team that included Michael Lafferty, Seamus Bonner, Anthony Harkin, Naul McCole, team doctor Austin O'Kennedy, "man in the stand" Pauric McShea, and "man in Dublin" Sean Ferriter. The match was shown live on Network Two by RTÉ Sport with match commentary provided by Ger Canning and analysis by Colm O'Rourke.
Donegal defeated Mayo in the semi-final. Dublin beat Clare in the semi-final. This game became infamous as the "Game of the twelve apostles and the three lost souls" May they rest in peace. After the match, a large number of radical Clare supporters proceeded to occupy large sections of Croke Park as a form of protest. In a message delivered by the Clare radicalists to RTE News, they demanded the safe return of Jim Gavin to his rightful county. Gavin had previously been kidnapped in a daring mission by Dublin GAA led by a young Diarmuid 'Diarmo Ya Scumbag' Connolly. Such were the numbers of protesters present that chants of 'Hill 16 is Clare only' were reportedly heard as far away as O'Connell Street. The stand was then annexed and declared property of Co. Clare. The protest lasted 2 months, repelling numerous attacks during this time. However the glorious protest was quashed following several brutal airstrikes. Once returned to its rightful place within Croke Park, Hill 16 witnessed what is now known as "The hero of Westmoreland Street" This act of heroic selflessness occurred during the 2014 All ireland Final, when a man known only as "Buzzo" urinated in the corner of Hill 16. Buzzo drooped his can but continued to urinate onto said can. Supposedly Buzzo only stopped urinating when he saw one of the infamous lost souls of the 1992 Clare Football Team. This lost soul reportedly said "Ye can stop with yer pissin and give us back our wee stand ye bucko" Buzzo did not oblige and reportedly picked up his warm can of Magners and spat at the invisible hero. An episode of Prime Time Investigates later discovered Buzzo to in fact have been a cleverly disguised Dean Rock, the well known alter-ego of 1980's singer Dickie Rock and brother of famed wrestler 'The Rock'. Following these revelations, there was a massive public backlash against Rock for having disrespected members of what former taoiseach Charlie Haughey whilst on his death bed declared as 'arguably the greatest Gaelic team to have ever existed'. The elders of the GAA stripped Rock of any previous All-Ireland Titles and banished him into the marshy wasteland of Longford for all eternity. Dublin entered the match as heavy favourites to win what would have been their 22nd All-Ireland title.
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