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1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.[1][2][3]

1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamDublin (5th win)
CaptainMatt Rea
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamWaterford
Provincial Champions
MunsterWaterford
LeinsterDublin
UlsterNot played
ConnachtNot played
Championship statistics
← 1897
1899 →

Results

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Leinster

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Meath2–6 – 0–6Offaly
Wexford2–24 – 0–5Carlow
Louth1–7 – 0–3Meath
Offaly2–6 – 1–3Wicklow
Referee: Charles Brady
Offaly0–4 – 1–11Wexford
Dublin2–6 – 0–6Laois
Dublin1–16 – 0–1Kilkenny
Wexford3–10 – 0–3Wicklow
Dublin2–6 – 0–0
Unfinished		Wexford

Dublin were awarded the game.

Munster

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Limerickscr. – scr.Clare
Waterford0–9 – 0–0Tipperary
Waterford1–3 – 0–4Cork

Final

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Dublin2–8 – 0–4Waterford
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: J McCarthy (Kilkenny)

Statistics

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  • Waterford won an only ever Munster SFC final.
  • Waterford were represented by Erin's Hope, with a few representatives from Lismore Blackwater Ramblers.
  • Limerick and Clare were thrown out because they refused to play their tie at Tipperary.[5]
  • It was Dublin's second two-in-a-row as All-Ireland champions.

References

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  1. ↑ "Football Results 1887 – 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Meeting of the Central Council", Nenagh News, 23 September 1899, p.3
  5. ↑ "Gaelic Notes", Evening Herald, 23 September 1899, p.7
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