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1989 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

1989 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Championship details
Dates 21 May - 1 September 1989
Teams 16
All-Ireland champions
Winning team Tipperary (23rd win)
Captain Bobby Ryan
Manager Michael 'Babs' Keating
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Antrim
Captain Ciaran Barr
Provincial champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Offaly
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Not Played
Championship statistics
No. matches played 17
Top Scorer Nicky English
Player of the Year Nicky English
All-Star Team See here
1988
1990

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1989 was the 103rd staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Antrim 4-24 to 3-9 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1989 was run on a provincial basis as usual. It was a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces - there were no seeds.

Each match was played as a single leg. If a match was drawn there was a replay, however, if both sides were still level at the end of that game another replay had to take place until a winner was eventually decided.

The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:


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