The 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 101st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match 1 Summary Cork scored a goal three minutes in and Brian Stafford scored a controversial equaliser
David Beggy brought the sides level to force a replay.
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Match 2 Summary Meath's Gerry McEntee was sent off in the seventh minute of the replay. He was guilty of striking Niall Cahalane.
The match was dominated by Meath's aggressive play.
According to Colm Keys, the replay was "one of the most brutal finals" due to Meath's style of play.
Meath won the replay by a point.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. Colm O'Rourke scored Meath's last point — which proved to be the winning score, when Cork began to close in on Meath towards the end.
In 2018, Martin Breheny listed the replay as the tenth greatest All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.Breheny, Martin. "Martin Breheny's Greatest All-Ireland Finals". Irish Independent. 1 September 2018, p. 14.
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Meath (is this the replay or the drawn game?) 1 M. McQuillan 2 R. O'Malley 3 M. Lyons 4 T. Ferguson 5 C. Coyle 6 L. Harnan 7 M. O'Connell 8 L. Hayes 9 G. McEntee 10 D. Beggy 11 J. Cassells (c) 12 P. J. Gillic 13 C. O'Rourke 14 B. Stafford 15 B. Flynn
Sub used 19 M. McCabe
Subs not used 16 S. Smyth 17 P. Lyons 18 F. Murtagh 20 F. Foley 21 K. Foley
Manager S. Boylan
Cork (is this the replay or the drawn game?) 1 J. Kerins 2 N. Cahalane 3 C. Corrigan 4 S. O'Brien 5 T. Davis 6 C. Counihan 7 T. Nation (c) 8 S. Fahy 9 T. McCarthy 10 P. McGrath 11 L. Tompkins 12 B. Coffey 13 D. Allen 14 D. Barry 15 M. McCarthy
Subs used 20 C. O'Neill for M. McCarthy 21 J. O'Driscoll for P. McGrath
Subs not used 16 M. Maguire 17 D. Walsh 18 M. Burns 19 D. Culloty 22 J. Cleary 23 J. Kerrigan 24 M. Slocum
Manager B. Morgan
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