Date 19 September 1993 Referee Tommy Howard (Kildare) | Venue Croke Park, Dublin Attendance 64,500 | |
Event 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||
The 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 106th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
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Match summary
Derry took their first and only All-Ireland with a Séamus Downey goal. Cork's Tony Davis was sent off harshly.
Details
Henry Downey captained the victorious Derry team.
Aftermath
Derry's manager that day was Eamonn Coleman. When Coleman died in 2007, the All-Ireland winning squad formed a guard of honour at his funeral.
Cork player Joe Kavanagh, who also played in their 1999 defeat to Meath, would describe 1999 as being as bad as 1993.
References
1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA