1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 65th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Mayo won their second All-Ireland in a row.^[1][2][3]

Limerick rejoined the Munster championship after a 2 year lapse break.

Mayo have not won an All-Ireland football final since 1951. Legend has it that a priest became furious when the Mayo team bus returning home from the 1951 final passed by a funeral without showing respect as they celebrated their All-Ireland win. The priest supposedly put a curse on Mayo, that they would not win another title until all of the team had died.^[4] All remaining members of the team had died by 2023.^[5][6] Paddy Prendergast, who was the final surviving member and played at full-back, died at the age of 95 on 26 September 2021.^[7][8][9] Mick Loftus, who was a sub and did not play on the day, died at the age of 93 on 22 April 2023.^[10]

There is no evidence of local belief in such a curse before the early 21st century.

• Limerick back in the Munster championship after 2 year rest break.
• In fact the Leinster football championship saw a triple of draws and replays they were in the following games as we know,

- Preliminary Round, Longford vs Carlow. - Quarter-Final, Wexford vs Westmeath. - Semi-Final, Meath vs Louth.

• The All Ireland semi-final between Meath and Antrim was their first championship meeting.
• Mayo are All Ireland Champions for 2 in a row and Connacht Champions for 4 in a row.