1990 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
| Event | 1990 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 2 September 1990 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Tomás Mulcahy | ||||||
| Referee | John Moore (Waterford) | ||||||
| Attendance | 63,954 | ||||||
The 1990 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 103rd All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1990 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 2 September 1990, between Cork and Galway. The Connacht men surprisingly lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 5-15 to 2-21. The match is regarded as the best championship decider of the decade.
Cork’s senior hurling team made an early start in the 1990 championship. On 20 May the team traveled to Austin Stack Park in Tralee and played Kerry in the opening round of the Munster Championship. A score line of 3-16 to 3-7 gave Cork a respectable win, however, the team stumbled at some stages and looked unlikely contenders for Munster and All-Ireland honours.
Two weeks later on 3 June Cork played Waterford in the Munster semi-final at Semple Stadium in Thurles. Waterford had defeated Cork in the championship the previous year and doubts about Cork’s team selection surfaced again. In the end Cork made light of the opposition and finished easy winners with a 4-15 to 1-8 victory.
Cork’s next outing in the championship was a Munster final meeting with arch-rivals Tipperary at Semple Stadium on 15 July. Tipp, as reigning All-Ireland champions, were installed as the favourites while Cork’s problems mounted due to the absence of star players Tomás Mulcahy and Teddy McCarthy due to injuries. An infamous interview in which Tipperary manager Michael ‘Babs’ Keating wrote off Cork’s chances by stating that ‘donkeys don’t win derbies’ severely riled the Cork team. It riled the team so much that they played like they had never played before. Cork’s centre half-forward Mark Foley played the game of his life and scored 2-7 from play. Cork won the game by 4-16 to 2-14.
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