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2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship final

Final Gaelic football match of 2004 in the Leinster province of Ireland

Field	Value
title	2004 Leinster Senior Football Final
event	2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship
team1	Laois
team1association	[[File:Laois colours.PNG	40px]]
team1score	0-13
team2	Westmeath
team2association	[[File:Galway colours.PNG	40px]]
team2score	0-13
date	18 July 2004
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	Pat McEnaney (Monaghan)
previous	2003

The 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship final was the final football match of the 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship (SFC), contested by Laois and Westmeath over two games in Croke Park, Dublin. The first game finished level so a replay occurred. Westmeath won their first ever title at senior level, leaving Wicklow and Fermanagh as the only other counties yet to achieve this. The season also saw the emergence of Denis Glennon.

Pre-match

Westmeath had only ever appeared in two Leinster SFC finals in their history: in 1931 and 1949. They went into the 2004 Leinster SFC bidding to win their first ever title at senior level, with the only other counties still to achieve this being Wicklow and Fermanagh.

Westmeath midfielder Rory O'Connell was banned for 12-weeks for stamping on Offaly's Pascal Kellaghan during Westmeath's Leinster SFC win on 23 May 2004. This threatened O'Connell's participation in the final. Kellaghan submitted a letter saying the offence had not happened.

Reaction

Commentators hailed Westmeath's win as monumental, with the Irish Independents Eamonn Sweeney, 'Richard Stakelum famously greeted Tipperary's first Munster title in sixteen years with the words, "The famine is over." What Westmeath have endured makes the famine of other counties look more like minor spells of peckishness. There was a song a few years back which described the failures of the English soccer team as "thirty years of hurt." Thirty years? How about one hundred and twenty years of hurt. And those years never stopped Westmeath dreaming either.' Colm O'Rourke said it was "one of the greatest days ever in Croke Park and must have given rise to the biggest street party ever in [the Westmeath capital] Mullingar last night".

Aftermath

Westmeath player David Mitchell later joined Longford.

References

(27 May 2005). "Glennon makes his mark". Hogan Stand.
(23 June 2010). "Both Westmeath and Louth eye great chance to claim Leinster final spot". Westmeath Independent.
(12 July 2004). "O'Connell to appeal ban tomorrow". BreakingNews.ie.
Sweeney, Eamonn. (25 July 2004). "End of 120 years' hurt". Independent News & Media.
O'Rourke, Colm. (25 July 2004). "Páidí guides midlands army to glory". Independent News & Media.
(28 November 2006). "Westmeath ace to join Longford". Independent News & Media.

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