1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

June 2017 January 2025 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final prog.jpg 200 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Cork 40px 0–17(17) Mayo 40px 1–11(14) 17 September 1989 Croke Park Dublin Paddy Collins (Westmeath) 65,519 1988 1990 The 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was a Gaelic football match played at Croke Park on 17 September 1989 to determine the winners of the 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the 103rd season of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champions of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Mayo of Connacht and Cork of Munster, with Cork winning by 0–17 to 1–11. Match Summary In what is regarded as one of the best and most entertaining finals of its era, the Cork and Mayo All-Ireland decider provided "great fun at a time when football badly needed some".http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7628&Itemid=55 1989: One that got away for Mayo The Mayo News 14 September 2009 30 July 2015 Daniel Carey 23 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160123061547/http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7628&Itemid=55 dead Cork entered the game hoping to avoid the unwanted accolade of becoming the first team in almost fifty years to lose three successive All-Ireland finals. Inspired by this they got off to a great start with three quick points before Mayo settled into the match. At half time Cork led by 0–10 to 0–8. Mayo were rejuvenated after the interval. An Anthony Finnerty goal in the 38th minute gave Mayo a brief lead. Finnerty's goal looked as though it might swing the tide in Mayo's favour. Cork hit back to equalize through Dave Barry and a brace of scores from John Cleary handed the Rebels the initiative. Mayo's Noel Durkan set Finnerty free again minutes later, however, in a key turning point of the game, he planted his shot into the side-netting. Mayo failed to score for the last sixteen minutes as Mick McCarthy and Teddy McCarthy kicked over the final points of the game.http://www.the42.ie/down-memory-lane-a-potted-history-of-cork-v-mayo-187104-Jul2011/ Down memory lane: A potted history of Cork v Mayo The 42 29 July 2011 30 July 2015http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/1/1609141534-jubilee-team-cork-1989/ Jubilee Team: Cork 1989 GAA website 16 September 2014 30 July 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040541/http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/1/1609141534-jubilee-team-cork-1989/ 24 September 2015 Cork's All-Ireland SFC victory was their first since 1973. The win gave them their fifth All-Ireland title over all and put them joint fourth on the all-time roll of honour along with Meath, Cavan and Wexford. It was the final match for captain Dinny Allen, who before the match had a reputation as one of the great "nearly men" of Gaelic games. He was dropped from the panel for the 1973 season allegedly as punishment for spending the winter playing soccer for Cork Hibs, and as a dual player his final inter-county hurling appearance came in 1975, the year before Cork won three straight All-Ireland titles. The team Mayo selected for the 1989 All-Ireland SFC final was full of players more accustomed to the role of midfielder than anything else, e.g. T. J. Kilgallon at centre-back and Greg Maher at wing-forward.https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/mayo-must-alter-a-losing-formula-the-absence-of-guile-to-turn-possession-into-scores-has-been-a-constant-grievance-41790030.html Mayo must alter a losing formula Sunday Independent Dermot Crowe 26 June 2022 6–7 (Sport) McStay, an All Star inside forward in 1985, agrees. The 1989 All-Ireland final team was choc-a-bloc with midfielders playing out of position, like TJ Kilgallon at centre-back and Greg Maher at wing-forward. Mayo were appearing in their first All-Ireland SFC final since they triumphed in 1951. Defeat at the hands of Cork was the first of eleven All-Ireland defeats along two draws from thirteen final appearances between 1989 and 2021. Details 17 September 1989 15:15 IST Mayo football 20px|border 1–11 - 0–17 20px|border Cork football M Fitzmaurice 0–7, A Finnerty 1–0, K McStay 0–2, L McHale 0–1, WJ Padden 0–1 L Tompkins 0–4, P McGrath 0–3, J Cleary 0–3, D Barry 0–3, T McCarthy 0–2, M McCarthy 0–2 Croke Park, Dublin 65,519 Paddy Collins (Westmeath) _redhorizontal 008000 008000 008000 ffffff FF0000 _3_stripes_green _red stripes Mayo _whiteborder _collarwhite _whiteborder FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FFFFFF FF0000 _white_bands Cork Cork 1 J. Kerins 2 N. Cahalane 3 S. O'Brien 4 J. Kerrigan 5 M. Slocum 6 C. Counihan 7 T. Davis 8 T. McCarthy 9 S. Fahy 10 D. Barry 11 L. Tompkins 12 B. Coffey 13 P. McGrath 14 D. Allen (c) 15 J. Cleary Subs used 21 J. O'Driscoll for B. Coffey 20 M. McCarthy for S. Fahy 19 D. Culloty for J. Cleary Subs not used 16 M. Maguire 17 T. Nation 18 D. Walsh 22 M. Burns 23 C. O'Neill 24 E. O'Mahony Manager B. Morgan Mayo 1 G. Irwin 2 J. Browne 3 P. Ford 4 D. Flanagan 5 M. Collins 6 T. J. Kilgallon 7 J. Finn 8 S. Maher 9 L. McHale 10 G. Maher 11 W. J. Padden 12 N. Durkin 13 M. Fitzmaurice 14 J. Burke 15 K. McStay Subs used 18 A. Finnerty for J. Burke 20 R. Dempsey for S. Maher 22 B. Kilkelly for G. Maher Subs not used 16 E. Lavin 17 D. Kearney 19 M. Feeney 21 M. Carney 23 P. Holmes 24 T. Grady Manager J. O'Mahony References All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals Category:All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals Category:GAA finals at Croke Park Category:Cork county football team matches Category:Mayo county football team matches