2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final
# 2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final

The 2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Cork and Galway. It was Cork's first final and Galway's third. Galway were also the reigning champions, having won the 2004 final. Galway led 0–4 to 0–3 at half-time, but Player of the Match, Valerie Mulcahy, subsequently scored 1–5 to help Cork win their first All-Ireland title. Cork eventually won 1–11 to 0–8. It was also the first of five consecutive All-Ireland finals that Cork would win between 2005 and 2009.

The Galway team featured Annette Clarke as well as Claire Molloy, a future Ireland women's rugby union international, and Niamh Fahey, a future Republic of Ireland women's association football international.

## Teams

| Manager: Éamonn Ryan Team: 1 Elaine Harte 2 Bríd Stack 3 Angela Walsh 4 Rena Buckley 5 Briege Corkery 6 Ciara Walsh 7 S. O'Reilly 8 Juliet Murphy (c) 9 Norita Kelly 10 Amanda Murphy 11 Regina Curtin 12 Nollaig Cleary 13 Valerie Mulcahy 14 Caoimhe Creedon 15 Geraldine O'Flynn Substitutes: Mary O'Connor for O’Flynn (27) Deirdre O'Reilly for Creedon (40) A O'Connor for Curtin (55) N Keohane for A. Murphy (62) | Manager: Richard Bowles Team: 1 Una Carroll 2 M. Glynn 3 Ruth Stephens 4 Anne-Marie McDonough 5 Marie O'Connell 6 Aoibheann Daly (c) 7 Emer Flaherty 8 Annette Clarke 9 Edel Concannon 10 Geraldine Conneally 11 Niamh Duggan 12 Philomena Ni Fhlatharta 13 Rebecca McPhilbin 14 Niamh Fahey 15 Lorna Joyce Substitutes: Patricia Gleeson for Joyce (41) Claire Molloy for McDonough (44) Lisa Cohill for McPhilbin (52) |
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