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1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamTipperary (2nd win)
CaptainPaddy Finn
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamMeath
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterMeath
UlsterNot played
ConnachtNot played
Championship statistics
1894
1896

The 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the ninth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Meath in the Leinster final. Tipperary were the champions.[1][2][3]

Results

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Leinster

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Louth0-6– 0-1Cavan

Kildare1-4 – 0-4Wexford

Kildare2-10 – 0-2Louth

Kildare0-4 – 2-7Dublin

Kilkenny1-0 – 1-13Meath

Meath0-6 – 0-2Dublin

Munster

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Limerick0-0 – 0-0Waterford

Limerick5-6 – 1-1Kerry
Referee: RT Blake[4]

Tipperary2-7 – 0-1Waterford

Tipperary0-5 – 0-2Limerick
Referee: RT. Blake

All-Ireland final

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Tipperary0-4 – 0-3Meath
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: J.J. Kenny (Dublin)

Championship statistics

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Miscellaneous

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  • Cavan were part of Leinster championship.
  • Meath win their first Leinster title.
  • Tipperary, like Cork in 1890, won the Hurling and Football double in the same year, they would do so again five years later in 1900.

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 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. ^ Cork Examiner, Monday December 2, 1895