1987–88 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship

All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship 1987–88
Championship Details
Dates	1987 – 17 March 1988
All Ireland Champions
Winners	Midleton (1st win)
Captain	Ger Power
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up	Athenry
Provincial Champions
Munster	Midleton
Leinster	Rathnure
Ulster	Ruairí Óg
Connacht	Athenry
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 18th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county knockout competition for Ireland's top championship clubs representing each county. The championship was won by Midleton of Cork, who beat Athenry of Galway by 3–8 to 0–9 in the final.^[1]

Pre-championship

Of all the clubs that contested the 1987–88 championship season, Rathnure of Wexford were the only team to have reached the latter stages of the previous year's championship. They were the All-Ireland runners-up in 1987, losing out to Borrisoleigh of Tipperary, and were hotly tipped to make it back to the final for a second consecutive year. Other teams contesting the championship that had previously enjoyed provincial success were Midleton of Cork, Ballycran of Down and Ruairí Óg of Antrim.

Fixtures

Connacht Senior Club Hurling Championship

Pádraig Pearse's v Athenry

1987-12-13
Final

Pádraig Pearse's	0–7 – 4–18	Athenry

Pádraig Pearse's GAA Grounds, Woodmount

Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship

Rathnure v Portlaoise

1987-12-06
Final

Rathnure	3–8 – 1–13	Portlaoise

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship

Midleton v Cappawhite

1987-12-05
Final

Midleton	1–12 – 1–11	Cappawhite

FitzGerald Park, Kilmallock

Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship

Ballycran v Ruairí Óg

1987-11-08
Final

Ballycran	1–6 – 3–10	Ruairí Óg

McKenna Park, Ballycran

All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship

Athenry v Glen Rovers

1988-01-31
Quarter-final

Athenry	2–14 – 0–5	Glen Rovers

Ballinasloe

Athenry v Rathnure

1988-02-14
Semi-final

Athenry	3–12 – 1–4	Rathnure

Ballinasloe

Ruairí Óg v Midleton

1988-02-14
Semi-final

Ruairí Óg	2–5 – 3–11	Midleton

Páirc Mhuire, Cushendall

Midleton v Athenry

1988-03-17
Final

Midleton	3–8 – 0–9	Athenry
K. Hennessy (2–3), C. O'Neill (1–1), J. Fenton (0–2), T. McCarthy (0–1), G. FitzGerald (0–1).		P. J. Molloy (0–6), P. Healy (0–1), J. Hradiman (0–1), S. Keane (0–1).

Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: G. Kirwan (Offaly)

References

↑ "Athenry invest in the future". Sunday Tribune. 2003-02-16. Retrieved 2010-11-06.

All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships

Seasons	1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

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