1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamTipperary (1st win)
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamLaois
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterLaois
UlsterNot played
ConnachtNot 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.

Format[edit]

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

Representative clubs[edit]

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[edit]

Leinster[edit]

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

Munster[edit]

Tipperaryw/o – scr.Clare

TipperaryW - LWaterford

Cork0-2 – 0-1Kerry
Referee: T. R. Cleary

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

All-Ireland final[edit]

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

Championship statistics[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

  • Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.

References[edit]