1984 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship

1984 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Championship details
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamDublin (10th win)
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamTipperary
Provincial Champions
MunsterTipperary
LeinsterDublin
UlsterDerry
ConnachtRoscommon

The 1984 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 53rd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.

Derry entered the championship as defending champions; however, they were defeated by Dublin in the All-Ireland semi-final.

On 23 September 1984, Dublin won the championship with a 1-9 to 0-4 victory of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final. This was their 10th All-Ireland title overall and their first in two championship seasons.[1]

After this game, Jim Stynes, who was a part of the winning Dublin team, would go on to make his name in the Australian Football League playing for the Melbourne Football Club, whereby he would enter the Australian Football Hall of Fame as well as a slew of other impressive achievements within the code as a result of his involvement in the Melbourne Football Club's ambitious international recruitment program (now known as the "Irish experiment").[citation needed]

Results

Connacht Minor Football Championship

Quarter-Final

20 May 1984 Quarter-Final Leitrim 1-10 to 1-7 Sligo Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada, Carrick-on-Shannon
Referee: J. Kearney (Roscommon)

Semi-Finals

27 May 1984 Semi-Final Roscommon 1-6 to 1-2 Galway McHale Park, Castlebar
Referee: P. Egan (Leitrim)
24 June 1984 Semi-Final Leitrim 1-8 to 1-16 Mayo McHale Park, Castlebar
Referee: P. Egan (Galway)

Finals

8 July 1984 Final Roscommon 2-8 to 1-11 Mayo Pearse Stadium, Galway
Referee: S. Prior (Leitrim)
22 July 1984 Final Replay Roscommon 3-9 to 2-8 Mayo McHale Park, Castlebar
Referee: S. Prior (Leitrim)

Leinster Minor Football Championship

Preliminary Round

May 1984 Preliminary Round Wexford 2-11 to 2-3 Kilkenny Nowlan Park, Kilkenny
May 1984 Preliminary Round Westmeath 1-10 to 0-6 Meath Cusack Park, Mullingar
May 1984 Preliminary Round Laois 1-10 to 0-4 Carlow Dr Cullen Park, Carlow
May 1984 Preliminary Round Longford 2-7 to 3-4 Wicklow Aughrim Park, Aughrim
May 1984 Preliminary Round Replay Longford 1-9 to 1-8 Wicklow Pearse Park, Longford

Quarter-Finals

June 1984 Quarter-Final Westmeath 1-7 to 1-3 Louth Cusack Park, Mullingar
June 1984 Quarter-Final Dublin 3-12 to 0-9 Wexford Parnell Park, Dublin
June 1984 Quarter-Final Laois 1-6 to 0-6 Kildare Dr Cullen Park, Carlow
June 1984 Quarter-Final Longford 2-8 to 0-11 Offaly Pearse Park, Longford

Semi-Finals

July 1984 Semi-Final Dublin 1-14 to 0-3 Longford O'Connor Park, Tullamore
July 1984 Semi-Final Laois 0-5 to 0-11 Westmeath O'Connor Park, Tullamore

Final

29 July 1984 Final Dublin 0-12 to 1-6 Westmeath Croke Park, Dublin

Munster Minor Football Championship

Semi-Finals

June 1984 Semi-Final Tipperary 1-10 to 0-6 Clare Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
June 1984 Semi-Final Waterford 0-9 to 2-8 Kerry Cappoquin

Final

1 July 1984 Final Tipperary 2-3 to 0-8 Kerry Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney

Ulster Minor Football Championship

Preliminary Round

May 1984 Preliminary Round Derry 1-7 to 1-7 Cavan Breffni Park, Cavan
May 1984 Preliminary Round Replay Derry 0-11 to 0-6 Cavan Dean McGlinchey Park, Ballinascreen

Quarter-Finals

June 1984 Quarter-Final Antrim 1-6 to 1-5 Monaghan Casement Park, Belfast
June 1984 Quarter-Final Down 0-9 to 0-6 Fermanagh Pairc Esler, Newry
June 1984 Quarter-Final Derry 1-6 to 0-3 Tyrone Dean McGlinchey Park, Ballinascreen

Semi-Finals

June 1984 Semi-Final Armagh 1-6 to 0-6 Antrim Breffni Park, Cavan
June 1984 Semi-Final Down 0-3 to 0-5 Derry Casement Park, Belfast

Final

15 July 1984 Final Armagh 0-3 to 1-4 Derry St. Tiernach's Park, Clones

All-Ireland Minor Football Championship

Semi-Finals

12 August 1984 Semi-Final Tipperary 2-12 to 1-1 Roscommon Croke Park, Dublin
19 August 1984 Semi-Final Dublin 0-14 to 0-7 Derry Croke Park, Dublin

Final

23 September 1984 Final Dublin 1-9 to 0-4 Tipperary Croke Park, Dublin

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Tipperary qualify for the All-Ireland final for the first time since 1955.

References

  1. ^ "All-Ireland Minor Football Championship: Roll Of Honour". RTÉ Sport. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2011.