Sean O'Shea converted a winning point deep in injury-time to hand Kerry their first championship victory against Dublin since 2009.

All eyes were on the Kingdom captain as he coolly drove over a free from the ground from all of 55 yards into the Hill 16 end to break Dublin hearts and send Kerry into the All-Ireland SFC final.

A 1-14 to 1-13 victory over the Dubs means that Jack O'Connor's side will face Galway in what will be the first Sam Maguire Cup decider between the two counties in 22 years.

In front of a crowd of 73,602 in the Croke Park sunshine, Dessie Farrell's charges staged a stirring second-half comeback - overturning a five-point (1-8 to 0-6) interval deficit to draw level on 69 minutes after three successive points from James McCarthy and Ciaran Kilkenny (2).

O'Shea and Dean Rock exchanged frees, and just when extra-time appeared to be on the cards, the excellent David Clifford got out in front of his man to win a free and O'Shea made no mistake with the last kick of the game.

Altogether, Clifford (0-6, four from play) and O'Shea (1-4, 0-2f) combined for 1-10 of the winners’ tally, with the latter netting their goal on four minutes to push them into an early 1-1 to 0-1 lead.

Without their dangerman Con O'Callaghan missing through injury, Dublin opened the scoring from a point by Lee Gannon but that was the only time the Sky Blues had led over the course of a hugely entertaining contest as they coughed up five first-half wides.

Kenmare Shamrocks star O'Shea was in the thick of the action again when he saw his penalty saved and spilled by Evan Comerford in the run-up to half-time and things got heated after his boot made contact with the goalkeeper's head on the rebound.

That was a let-off for Dublin, as they pushed on in the second period and forced Kerry into making errors, with their goal coming on the counter-attack from Cormac Costello in the 45th minute following a slip up by David Moran leaving just two between the sides - 1-10 to 1-8.

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