# 1989 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

The 1989 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the 59th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's second tier Gaelic football championship.
Meath entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Kildare in the Leinster quarter-final.
The All-Ireland final was played on 10 September 1989 in Coventry, between Cork and Warwickshire, in what was their first meeting in the final in two years. Cork won the match by 0–18 to 0–03 to claim their eighth championship title overall and a first title since 1987.
Cork's Noel Twomey was the championship's top scorer with 1-16.

## Results
### Leinster Junior Football Championship
#### Leinster final

| GK | 1 | Joe Halligan (Ballykelly) |
| RCB | 2 | Noel Connolly (Grange) |
| FB | 3 | Shay Walsh (Ballyteague) |
| LCB | 4 | Paul Donnelly (Castlemitchell) |
| RHB | 5 | Peter McConnon (Round Towers) (c) |
| CHB | 6 | Michael Behan (Kill) |
| LHB | 7 | Willie Dowling (Eadestown) |
| MF | 8 | Tom Travers (Rathcoffey) |
| MF | 9 | Bernard Salmon (Suncroft) |
| RHF | 10 | Syl Merrins (Nurney) |
| CHF | 11 | Gerard Donnelly (Castlemitchell) |
| LHF | 12 | Joe Tynan (Castlemitchell) |
| RCF | 13 | John Lowry (Clogherinkoe) |
| FF | 14 | Joe Tompkins (Two Mile House) |
| LCF | 15 | Noel Cocoman (Kill) |
| Substitutes: ||
| | 16 | Billy Farrell (Straffan) for Cocoman |
| | 17 | Noel Donlon (Round Towers) for Merrins |
| GK | 1 | Cathal Copas (Dundalk Gaels) |
| RCB | 2 | Gerry Winters (Naomh Máirtín) |
| FB | 3 | Hugh Logue (St Kevin's) |
| LCB | 4 | Fra Fagan (Roche Emmets) |
| RHB | 5 | Stephen Matthews (St Kevin's) |
| CHB | 6 | Tony McCarragher (Cooley Kickhams) |
| LHB | 7 | Mark Gogarty (Naomh Malachi) |
| MF | 8 | Martin Morgan (Naomh Máirtín) |
| MF | 9 | Donal McCarthy (St Patrick's) |
| RHF | 10 | Alan O'Connor (St Joseph's) |
| CHF | 11 | Michael Malone (St Mary's) |
| LHF | 12 | Paul Gallagher (Roche Emmets) |
| RCF | 13 | Gerry Reynolds (Stabannon Parnells) |
| FF | 14 | Pat Mulligan (St Joseph's) |
| LCF | 15 | Liam Kelleher (Dreadnots) |
| Substitutes: ||
| | 16 | John McDonald (Cooley Kickhams) for Gallagher |

### All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
#### All-Ireland home final
#### All-Ireland final
## Championship statistics
### Top scorers
#### Overall

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Matches | Average |
| 1 | Noel Twomey | Cork | 1-16 | 19 | 4 | 4.75 |
| 2 | William O'Riordan | Cork | 0-16 | 16 | 4 | 4.00 |
| 3 | Syl Merrins | Kildare | 1-11 | 14 | 4 | 3.50 |
| 4 | Sean Geaney | Kerry | 2-03 | 9 | 2 | 4.50 |
| 5 | John Lowry | Kildare | 2-02 | 8 | 4 | 2.00 |

#### In a single game

| Rank | Player | Club | Tally | Total | Opposition |
| 1 | Sean Geaney | Kerry | 2-02 | 8 | Waterford |
| 2 | Noel Twomey | Cork | 1-04 | 7 | Kildare |
| 2 | William O'Riordan | Cork | 0-07 | 7 | Warwickshire |
| 4 | Syl Merrins | Kildare | 1-03 | 6 | Meath |
| 4 | Noel Twomey | Cork | 0-06 | 6 | Warwickshire |
| 4 | Liam O'Brien | Waterford | 0-06 | 6 | Limerick |
| 7 | Alan O'Connor | Louth | 1-02 | 5 | Carlow |
| 7 | Donal McCarthy | Louth | 1-02 | 5 | Kildare |
| 7 | Séamus Dillon | Kildare | 0-05 | 5 | Kilkenny |
| 7 | Johnny O'Gorman | Clare | 0-05 | 5 | Tipperary |