The 2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Cork and Galway.

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.

[2] 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.

[3][4][5][6] Team:1 Elaine Harte2 Bríd Stack3 Angela Walsh4 Rena Buckley5 Briege Corkery6 Ciara Walsh7 S. O'Reilly8 Juliet Murphy (c)9 Norita Kelly10 Amanda Murphy11 Regina Curtin12 Nollaig Cleary13 Valerie Mulcahy14 Caoimhe Creedon15 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) Team:1 Una Carroll2 M. Glynn3 Ruth Stephens4 Anne-Marie McDonough5 Marie O'Connell6 Aoibheann Daly (c)7 Emer Flaherty8 Annette Clarke9 Edel Concannon10 Geraldine Conneally11 Niamh Duggan12 Philomena Ni Fhlatharta13 Rebecca McPhilbin14 Niamh Fahey15 Lorna Joyce Substitutes:Patricia Gleeson for Joyce (41)Claire Molloy for McDonough (44)Lisa Cohill for McPhilbin (52)