The 1995 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 109th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county

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tournament. The championship began on 21 May 1995 and ended on 17 September 1995.

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entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by

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in the Ulster preliminary round. On 17 September 1995, Dublin won the championship following a 1-10 to 0-12 defeat of Tyrone in the All-Ireland final. This was their 22nd All-Ireland title and their first in twelve championship seasons. Tyrone's Peter Canavan was the championship's top scorer with 1-38. Dublin's

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was the choice for

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, while Tyrone's Peter Canavan was selected as the Powerscreen Footballer of the Year.

Provincial championships

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final

Munster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Semi-finals Final

Championship statistics

Top scorers

;Overall ;Single game

Miscellaneous

* The Leinster quarter-final between Laois and

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ends in disarray and confusion over the score. A late Mick Turley point which gave Laois the lead was later deemed to have been a wide. At a subsequent meeting the Leinster Council voted to adopt the referee's report in spite of television replays showing that the ball had gone wide. Laois offered

a replay of the match, which they subsequently won by four points. *

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being Munster champions for the third year in a row won their seventh Munster title in nine years.

References

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