1989 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final
# 1989 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final

The 1989 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 102nd All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1989 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 1989, between Tipperary, managed by Bab's Keating and Antrim, managed by Jim Nelson. The game was shown live in Ireland on Network 2 with match commentary provided by Ger Canning and comments throughout provided by Jimmy Magee. The Ulster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 4-24 to 3-9.

Tipperary had led at half time by 1-13 to 0-5 with their goal coming from Declan Ryan who scored when his high long range shot for a point hit the hurley of the Antrim goalkeeper Niall Patterson on its way into the net after 18 minutes.

The game is notable for a number of reasons. This was Antrim's second ever appearance in an All-Ireland final, some forty-six years after they lost to Cork at the same stage of the championship. Nicky English set a scoring record for a single player in the modern era as he notched up 2-12 to win his first All-Ireland Senior medal. The victory for Tipperary, eighteen years after their last in 1971, also preserved the county's unique record of winning an All-Ireland title in every decade of the GAA's existence. Tipperary were captained by Bobby Ryan.

## Match details

| Tipperary | Antrim |
| - | - |

TIPPERARY: :

| GK | 1 | Ken Hogan |
| - | - | - |
| RCB | 2 | John Heffernan |
| FB | 3 | Conor O'Donovan |
| LCB | 4 | Noel Sheehy |
| RWB | 5 | Conal Bonnar |
| CB | 6 | Bobby Ryan (c) |
| LWB | 7 | John Kennedy |
| M | 8 | Colm Bonnar |
| M | 9 | Declan Carr |
| RWF | 10 | John Leahy |
| CF | 11 | Declan Ryan |
| LWF | 12 | Michael Cleary |
| RCF | 13 | Pat Fox |
| FF | 14 | Cormac Bonnar |
| LCF | 15 | Nicky English |
| Substitutes: ||||
| FF | | Joe Hayes for Cormac Bonnar |
| RWF | | Donie O'Connell for J. Leahy |
| LWF | | Aidan Ryan for M. Cleary |

ANTRIM: :

| GK | 1 | Niall Patterson |
| - | - | - |
| RCB | 2 | Gary O'Kane |
| FB | 3 | T. Donnelly |
| LCB | 4 | Dessie Donnelly |
| RWB | 5 | James McNaughton |
| CB | 6 | Dominic McKinley |
| LWB | 7 | Leonard McKeegan |
| M | 8 | Paul McKillen |
| M | 9 | D. McMullan |
| RWF | 10 | Ciaran Barr (c) |
| CF | 11 | Aiden McCarry |
| LWF | 12 | Olcan McFetridge |
| RCF | 13 | Donal Armstrong |
| FF | 14 | Brian Donnelly |
| LCF | 15 | Terence 'Sambo' McNaughton |
| Substitutes: ||||
| M | | Danny McNaughton for D. McMullan |
| CF | | Darren McKillop for G. O'Kane |
| RCF | | M. Sullivan for D. McKinley |

MATCH RULES

* 70 minutes
* Replay if scores level
* Maximum of 3 substitutions
