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2004–05 Irish Cup
Tournament details
Country	Northern Ireland
Teams	32
Defending champions	Glentoran
Final positions
Champions	Portadown (3rd win)
Runner-up	Larne
Tournament statistics
Matches played	39
Goals scored	107 (2.74 per match)
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The 2004–05 Irish Cup was the 125th edition of the Irish Cup, Northern Ireland's premier football knock-out cup competition. It concluded on 7 May 2005 with the final.

Glentoran were the defending champions, winning their 20th Irish Cup last season after a 1–0 win over Coleraine in the 2004 final. This season the Glens reached the semi-final stage, but were defeated by Portadown, who then went on to lift the cup for the third time with a 5–1 victory over Larne in the final.

It was the highest scoring final in 36 years, since the 1969 final replay when Ards defeated Distillery 4–2. It was also the first time in 43 years that the final had been won by a four-goal margin, when Linfield defeated Portadown 4–0 in 1962. This was Larne's fifth appearance in the final without ever winning; a record in the competition that still stands. They had previously been runners-up in the 1928, 1935, 1987 and 1989 finals. Derry Celtic (1898 and 1904) and Limavady (1885 and 1886) are the only other clubs to have reached the final more than once, but never won.^[1]^[2]

Fifth round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Armagh City	1–2	Dungannon Swifts
Ballyclare Comrades	1–1	Ards
Ballymena United	1–0	Coagh United
Bangor	1–5	Newry City¹
Carrick Rangers	1–5	Coleraine
Cliftonville	2–3	Banbridge Town
Glenavon	0–2	Portadown
Glentoran	6–0	Lisburn Rangers
Institute	4–0	Ballymoney United
Kilmore Recreation	1–0	Ballynure Old Boys
Larne	3–0	East Belfast
Linfield	1–1	Limavady United
Lisburn Distillery	4–1	Ballinamallard United
Loughgall	5–1	Donegal Celtic
Omagh Town	0–1	Crusaders
Tobermore United	0–2	Harland & Wolff Welders

¹Newry City were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player. Bangor were reinstated.

Replays

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ballyclare Comrades	0–1	Ards
Limavady United	1–2	Linfield

Sixth round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ballymena United	4–1	Kilmore Recreation
Crusaders	0–1	Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts	1–2	Larne
Glentoran	1–1	Linfield
Institute	1–2	Ards
Lisburn Distillery	1–1	Harland & Wolff Welders
Loughgall	0–0	Banbridge Town
Portadown	2–1	Bangor