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
LeinsterLaois
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
Laois (Queen's County) Maryborough
Tipperary Bohercrowe

Results[]

Leinster[]

Louth2–7 – 0–6Dublin
Drogheda
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary

Louthw/o – scr.Kilkenny
Dublin

Wickloww/o - scr.Laois
Dublin

Louth1–7 – 1–4Wicklow
Dublin

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


Laois0–9 – 0–4Wicklow
Inchicore
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown

Laois0-3 – 0–2Louth
Inchicore
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Munster[]

Tipperaryw/o – scr.Clare

TipperaryW - LWaterford

Cork0-2 – 0-1Kerry
Mallow

Tipperary1-2 – 0-3Cork
Mallow
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland Final[]

Tipperary3-6 - 0-0Laois
Inchicore
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: M. O'Driscoll

Championship statistics[]

Miscellaneous[]

  • Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.

References[]

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