1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship The 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the ninth UEFA European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted in France between 15 and 20 April 1994. The qualification stage spanned two years from 1992 to 1994. The qualification process consisted of 32 entrants. After the two-legged quarter-final stage, France was chosen as the first hosts of the final stage, which consisted of four matches in total. The finals included for the first time a third-place play-off. Italy won the competition for the second consecutive time. Luís Figo won the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Golden player
2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship bidding to win their first ever title at senior level, with the only other counties still to achieve this being Wicklow and Fermanagh. Westmeath midfielder Rory O'Connell was banned for 12-weeks for stamping on Offaly's Pascal Kellaghan during Westmeath's Leinster Senior Football Championship win on 23 May 2004. This threatened O'Connell's participation in the final. Kellaghan submitted a letter saying the offence had not happened. Commentators hailed Westmeath's win as monumental, with the "Irish Independent"s Eamonn Sweeney, 'Richard Stakelum famously greeted Tipperary's first Munster title in sixteen years with the words, "The famine is over."