1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final

none May 2020 May 2020 1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final 1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Offaly 40px 1-13 Clare 40px 2-8 3 September 1995 Croke Park Dublin Seánie McMahon Dickie Murphy (Wexford) 65,092 Cloudy 1994 1996 The 1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final (sponsored by Guinness) was the 108th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 3 September 1995, between Clare and Offaly. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 1-13 to 2-8. It was Clare's first All-Ireland title since 1914.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/hurling-clare-lay-the-ghost-at-last-1599434.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/hurling-clare-lay-the-ghost-at-last-1599434.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Hurling: Clare lay the ghost at last 2009-09-04 The Independent 2009-11-16 London Eddie Wiley The match was shown live in Ireland on Network 2 with match commentary by Ger Canning with analysis by Tomás Mulcahy. Match details Summary Offaly's Daithí Regan opened the scoring in the game with a long range point into the canal end of the stadium. Billy Dooley then got a second point for Offaly after a high ball broke to him on the right. Seánie McMahon got Clare's opening score with a long range point to make the score 0-2 to 0-1 in Offaly's favor. Ollie Baker scored from a side line ball on the right to put Clare ahead by a point. Johnny Pilkington got a goal in the second half when he pulled on a loose ball in front of goals that went low and rolled into the net past Clare goalkeeper Davy Fitzgerald. Clare's goal in the second half came when a long range free from Anthony Daly was patted back into play by Offaly goalkeeper David Hughes where it was hit high to the net from the edge of the square by Éamonn Taaffe. 3 SeptemberFinal15:30 BST Clare 1-13 – 2-8 Offaly Report F. Tuohy (0-4), E. Taffe (1-0), S. McMahon (0-3), J. O'Connor (0-2), F. Hegarty (0-1), G. O'Loughlin (0-1), O. Baker (0-1), A. Daly (0-1). Johnny Dooley (0-5), J. Pilkington (1-0), M. Duignan (1-0), J. Troy (0-1), D. Regan (0-1), B. Dooley (0-1). Croke Park, Dublin 65,092 D. Murphy (Wexford) _yellowbluehoops _darkbluehorizontal _yellowbluehoops ffff00 ffff00 ffff00 00008B 00008B _color_3_stripes_yellow Clare _OffalyGAA 4fa36f fffff 4fa36f FFFFFF 4fa36f _color_3_stripes_white Offaly CLARE GAA:1 Davy Fitzgerald 2 Michael O'Halloran3 Brian Lohan4 Frank Lohan5 Liam Doyle6 Seánie McMahon7 Anthony Daly (c)8 Jamesie O'Connor9 Ollie Baker10 Fergus Tuohy11 P.J. O'Connell12 Fergal Hegarty13 Stephen McNamara14 Conor Clancy15 Ger O'LoughlinSubstitutes Used:16 Éamonn Taaffe for S. McNamara17 Cyril Lyons for C. Clancy18 Alan Neville for É. TaaffeManager: Ger LoughnaneOFFALY GAA:1 David Hughes2 Shane McGuckin3 Kevin Kinahan4 Martin Hanamy5 Brian Whelahan6 Hubert Rigney7 Kevin Martin8 Johnny Pilkington (c)9 Daithí Regan10 Johnny Dooley11 John Troy12 Michael Duignan13 Billy Dooley14 Pat O'Connor15 Joe DooleySubstitutes Used:16 Declan Pilkington for P. O'Connor17 Brendan Kelly for Joe DooleyManager: Éamonn Cregan Aftermath Clare captain Anthony Daly received the Liam MacCarthy Cup from GAA President Jack Boothman in the Hogan Stand and gave a famous speech saying "'There's been a missing person in Clare for 81 long years. Well today that person has been found alive and well, and that person's name is Liam McCarthy". https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20162483.html This much I know: Anthony Daly 30 July 2011 Irish Examiner 4 September 2013 https://books.google.com/books?id=gQ4LIEppWWsC&q=anthony+daly+speech+1995&pg=PT63 Raising the Banner April 2011 GAA: An Oral History 9781845969479 4 September 2013 Scally John Random House The Sunday Game (which was broadcast that night) crossed over to the winners hotel in Dublin, with Ger Canning and Marty Morrissey interviewing the winning manager Ger Loughnane and some of the players.May 2020 References External links Match Highlights https://archive.today/20130904181010/https://www.crokepark.ie/Shop-Home/Photos-and-Prints/Match-Programme-Covers/All-Ireland-Hurling-Match-Programme-Covers/Match-programme-cover-for-the-1995-All-Ireland-Hur Match Programme Cover el All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, 1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final Category:All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship finals Category:GAA finals at Croke Park Category:Clare county hurling team matches Category:Offaly county hurling team matches