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In Gaelic football, the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Mayo defeating Kerry in the final. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. In Gaelic football,
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  the All Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Mayo defeating
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  Kerry in the final. The twenty twenty six All Ireland
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  Senior Football Championship Final was a Gaelic football match played
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  at Croke Park in Dublin on the twenty sixth of
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  July twenty twenty six between Kerrie and Mayo, the culmination
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  of the twenty twenty six All Ireland Senior Football Championship.
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  It was the one hundred thirty ninth final of that
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  sport's primary competition, the All Ireland Senior Football Championship. Kerry,
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  the reigning title holder from twenty twenty five and twenty
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  twenty six Munster Senior Football Championship winner, faced Mayo in
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  what was a first meeting of the teams at this
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  stage of the competition since two thousand and six. Mayo
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  defeated heavy favorites Kerry by a total of three points,
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  with a score of one to twenty to one to seventeen.
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  This was Mayo's first All Ireland SFC title in seventy
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  five years and a fourth overall. The match was broadcast
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  live on the Sunday game live on RTE two television
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  and on the RTE Player, presented by with Joanne Cantwell,
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  with analysis from Peter Canavan, Thomas Osey and Lee Keegan.
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  Match commentary was provided by Marty Morrissey and Iaman FitzMaurice.
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  It was also broadcast live by BBC two Northern Ireland
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  and on the BBC iPlayer. The match drew an average
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  TV audience of nine hundred forty four thousand viewers on
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  RTE two, representing an eighty two percent share of the
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  available audience, and peaked at one one hundred thousand towards
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  the end of the game. The twenty twenty six All
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  Ireland Senior Football Championship was the one hundred fortieth edition
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  of the Gaelic Athletic Association's Maine Inter County Gaelic Football Tournament.
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  Thirty one of the thirty two Irish counties took part.
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  Kilkenny the exception London and New York completed the line
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  up by entering the Connacht SFC. The championship was won
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  by Mayo, who beat Kerry in the final. Kerry have
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  been the defending champions. The bookmaker's favorites had been Kerry
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  and Donegal, with Tyrone, Galway, Dublin and Armagh also considered contenders.
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  The Kerry County Football team represents Kerry and men's Gaelic
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  football and is governed by Kerry GAA, a county board
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  of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the
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  three major annual inter county competitions, the All Ireland Senior
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  Football Championship, the Munster Senior Football Championship and the National
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  Football League. They are the most successful county in Gaelic
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  football history, having won the record most titles in each
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  of these competitions thirty nine All Irelands, twenty four National
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  Football Leagues and eighty six Monster titles. Kerrie fast established
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  itself as a major force after its maiden All Ireland
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  win in nineteen o three, capturing at least two All
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  Irelands in each decade between the nineteen hundreds and nineteen eighties.
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  The Kerry team of the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties,
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  managed by Mick O'Dwyer, is considered to be one of
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  the greatest in football history. O'Dwyer led the Kingdom to
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  eight All Ireland titles between nineteen seventy five and nineteen
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  eighty nine, the highest such tally for a single manager.
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  He is widely regarded as one of the sport's greatest
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  ever managers. O'Dwyer's departure brought a period of decline in
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  the nineteen nineties, but Carrie football has rebounded significantly in
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  the twenty first century. The team's current manager, Jack O'Connor,
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  has won five All Ireland SFC titles over three separate
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  spells since two thousand. Kerrie has played in green shirts
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  with gold hoops and white shorts for most of its history.
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  Its long standing and fierce rivalry with Dublin emerged from
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  periods of intense competition during the nineteen seventies and nineteen
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  eighties and is one of the sports most renowned. Notably,
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  the teams contested five consecutive All Ireland finals between nineteen
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  seventy five and nineteen seventy nine. Dublin's All Ireland tally
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  of thirty one is outmatched only by Kerry's, and the
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  sides are considered Gaelic football's Big two. Another important rivalry
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  exists with Cork, there geographic neighbors in Munster and the
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  second most successful Munster SFC side. Kerry's home grounds are
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  Austin Stack Park, Trolley and Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney. Kerry was
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  the fourth Munster county to win both the All Ireland
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  Senior Football Championship and All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, following Limerick,
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  Tipperary and Cork. The team last won the Munster Senior
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  Championship in twenty twenty five, the All Ireland Senior Championship
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  in twenty twenty five and the National League in twenty
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  twenty five. The Mayo County Football team represents Mayo in
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  men's Gaelic football and is governed by Mayo GAA, the
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  county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes
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  in the three major annual inter county competitions, the All
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  Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Connacht Senior Football Championship and
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  the National Football League. That's it for now. See the
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