Oct 9, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
Three decades, three memorable encounters, and three very different chapters in GAA history. This week, Michael Foley and Ciarán O’Hara revisit a dramatic October when All-Ireland glory was still up…
Ciaran O'HaraHost1988 last time out we were talking about the first time that the sam mcguire was presented back in 1928 well this is the first time that baby sam was presented sam oak sam oak the replacement sam and it was it was joe castles of meath who got to lift the cup but not after one of the most notorious hot ireland finals of the era And to be fair, it was an era when there was a few notorious finals.
Like, the drawn game, Meath came out of that game feeling it didn't play well enough.
Cork were ready for this kind of upsurge in physicality and football for Meade.
And it all bore itself out in the first five minutes when there was not on the 96 level, the brawl, but it was pretty, pretty unpleasant, pretty nasty.
And it all ended up with Niall Cahalan flattened on the floor and Gerry McEntee for Meade getting sent off after six minutes.
And it's one of those ones I would imagine for a generation of Cork footballers still stings that they didn't close this one up.
G.A. President John Dowling was not happy with the, inverted comma, spectacle that had unfolded in front of them and said, we will have an investigation into all of this.
And, you know, in the same way, the Meath players weren't happy with the flack that they took that Sunday evening and into the following Monday.
There was a lunch back then for the two teams after an all-Ireland final and at that lunch, and the media would have been there as well.
1988 last time out we were talking about the first time that the sam mcguire was presented back in 1928 well this is the first time that baby sam was presented sam oak sam oak the replacement sam and it was it was joe castles of meath who got to lift the cup but not after one of the most notorious hot ireland finals of the era And to be fair, it was an era when there was a few notorious finals.
Like, the drawn game, Meath came out of that game feeling it didn't play well enough.
Cork were ready for this kind of upsurge in physicality and football for Meade.
And it all bore itself out in the first five minutes when there was not on the 96 level, the brawl, but it was pretty, pretty unpleasant, pretty nasty.
And it all ended up with Niall Cahalan flattened on the floor and Gerry McEntee for Meade getting sent off after six minutes.
And it's one of those ones I would imagine for a generation of Cork footballers still stings that they didn't close this one up.
G.A. President John Dowling was not happy with the, inverted comma, spectacle that had unfolded in front of them and said, we will have an investigation into all of this.
And, you know, in the same way, the Meath players weren't happy with the flack that they took that Sunday evening and into the following Monday.
There was a lunch back then for the two teams after an all-Ireland final and at that lunch, and the media would have been there as well.
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