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.

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
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary
Louthw/o – scr.Kilkenny
Wickloww/o - scr.Laois
Louth1–7 – 1–4Wicklow

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
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown
Laois0-3 – 0–2Louth
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly
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1 Jack Rooney (gk)
2 James Mooney (c)
3 Eugene Clifford
4 James Kelly
5 Patrick Byrne
6 F. Farrell
7 Bernard Woods
8 Joe Carroll
9 James McCann
10 John Hughes
11 Peter Allen
12 Peter Hickey
13 J. Dillon
14 Robert Allen
15 Francis Carroll
16 Nick Tiernan
17 Paddy Rooney
18 Joe Connor
19 Pat Finegan
20 Thomas Heaney
21 Jack Louth

Munster

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

All-Ireland final

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

Statistics

  • Tipperary win the first All-Ireland title.

References

  1. ^ Mulligan, Fr. John (1984). The GAA in Louth - An Historical Record. Louth GAA. pp. 35–36.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship
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