The Ulster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 4-24 to 3-9.

[1] Tipperary had led at half time by 1-13 to 0-5 with their goal coming from Declan Ryan who scored when his high long range shot for a point hit the hurley of the Antrim goalkeeper Niall Patterson on its way into the net after 18 minutes.

This was Antrim's second-ever appearance in an All-Ireland final, some forty-six years after they lost to Cork at the same stage of the championship.

Nicky English set a scoring record for a single player in the modern era as he notched up 2-12 to win his first All-Ireland Senior medal.

The victory for Tipperary, eighteen years after their last in 1971, also preserved the county's unique record of winning an All-Ireland title in every decade of the GAA's existence.