 A 0–14 to 1–6 score line resulted in a first All-Ireland winners' medal for Mullins and a first for Dublin in eleven years.Dublin proved that their success in 1974 was not a flash-in-the-pan by retaining the Leinster title in 1975 after an enormous 3–13 to 0–8 defeat of Kildare.Mullins's side were the red-hot favourites going into the All-Ireland final against the youngest Kerry teams of all-time.