1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Tipperary (1st win)
Captain Gil Cavanagh
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Laois
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Laois
Ulster Not played
Connacht Not played
Championship statistics
1888
1890

The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. 1887 All Ireland champions Limerick were not part of the Munster championship. Tipperary were the champions.

Contents

Format

Only two provincial championship were played: Leinster and Munster. The winners met in the All-Ireland final.

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

CountyClub
Cork Midleton
Kerry Laune Rangers
Louth Newtown Blues
Laois (Queen's County) Maryborough
Tipperary Bohercrowe

Results

Leinster

Louth 2–7 – 0–6 Dublin
Drogheda
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary

Louth w/o – scr. Kilkenny

Wicklow w/o - scr. Laois

Louth 1–7 – 1–4 Wicklow

The Wicklow–Laois game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.


Laois 0–9 – 0–4 Wicklow
Inchicore
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown

Laois 0-3 – 0–2 Louth
Inchicore
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly
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1Jack Rooney (gk)
2James Mooney (c)
3Eugene Clifford
4James Kelly
5Patrick Byrne
6F. Farrell
7Bernard Woods
8Joe Carroll
9James McCann
10John Hughes
11Peter Allen
12Peter Hickey
13J. Dillon
14Robert Allen
15Francis Carroll
16Nick Tiernan
17Paddy Rooney
18Joe Connor
19Pat Finegan
20Thomas Heaney
21Jack Louth

Munster

Tipperary w/o – scr. Clare

Tipperary W - L Waterford

Cork 0-2 – 0-1 Kerry
Referee: T. R. Cleary

Tipperary 1-2 – 0-3 Cork
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland final

Tipperary 3-6 - 0-0 Laois
Inchicore
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: M. O'Driscoll

Statistics

References

  1. Mulligan, Fr. John (1984). The GAA in Louth - An Historical Record. Louth GAA. pp. 35–36.