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1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamTipperary (1st win)
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterQueen's County
Championship statistics
← 1888
1890 →

The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Tipperary were the champions.

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.

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

Results

Leinster

Louth2–7 – 0–6Dublin
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary
Louthw/o – scr.Kilkenny
Wickloww/o - scr.Queen's County
Louth1–7 – 1–4Wicklow

The Wicklow-Queen's County game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.

Queen's County0–9 – 0–4Wicklow
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown
Queen's County0-3 – 0–2Louth
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Munster

Tipperaryw/o – scr.Clare
TipperaryW - LWaterford
Cork0-2 – 0-1Kerry
Tipperary1-2 – 0-3Cork
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland Final

Main article: 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Tipperary3-6 - 0-0Queen's County
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: M. O'Driscoll

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.

References

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