 Galway got a bye into the final without picking up a hurley.Devaney, Donie Nealon and Larry Keane all scored goals for Tipperary in the first-half, while Tony Wall sent a seventy-yard free untouched to the Galway net.Tipperary won the game by 4-9 to 2-5 giving Devaney his first All-Ireland medal.