1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date 17 September 1989
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Paddy Collins (Westmeath)
Attendance 65,519

The 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 102nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1989 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Anthony Finnerty's 38th minute goal gave Mayo a brief lead, but they did not score for the last nineteen minutes and Cork won by three.[1]

This was Mayo's first appearance in an All-Ireland football final since they won the All-Ireland football title in 1951.[2]

References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. McGee, Eugene (6 February 2006). "First signs that Mayo might be set to turn back the clock". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). Retrieved 6 February 2006.