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1981 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ4727957 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1981 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of Ireland's secondary hurling knock-out competition. Antrim won the championship, beating London 3–17 to 3–14 in the final at Fr. Healy Park, Loughguile.

Results

All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship

First round

Quarter-final

Semi-finals

Home final

Final

References

Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1981 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship” as football tournament season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where All-Ireland, Senior and Hurling can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football tournament season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4727957. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “1981 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.