GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 18 – January 24, 2015 | Page 11

beat. North London Shamrocks, who were promoted
to senior this year after their
Intermediate win in 2014,
will also be keen to stay up
in the top tier. As always it
will be a very exciting junior football championship
in London. Champions
Moindearg get promoted
after their narrow defeat of
Thomas McCurtains, who
no doubt, will be ones to
watch once again along with
the likes of Eire Og and the
talented home grown players from the junior Tir Chonaill Gaels side.
In London senior hurling,
Photo: Declan Flanagan
Kilburn Gaels proved strongest in last year’s championship when winning comfortably in the final against surprise packet Sean Treacy’s. Kilburn accounted for the 2013
champs and great rivals St. Gabriels in the semi-final but
Gabriels took some revenge when they beat the same opposition later in the league decider. A plethora of cup action in
football and hurling will also take place through the season.
After a poor 2014 national league, with one win, one
draw but with five losses, the London football team were
brought back to earth fast after the heady summer before
when they reached a Connacht football final. More misery
followed in the 2014 Connacht Championship when they
fell heavily to County Galway, and later exited in Round 1
of the Qualifiers at hands of Limerick by a margin of three.
London will look for a better showing in Round 1 of the
forthcoming National League Div 4. Up first on Feb 1st will

be a very tough opener against relegated County Offaly.
That Offaly find themselves in Division 4 will be a shock
and they’ll be looking to banish the thought instantly. In
the Connacht Championship, London will hope for a result
against Roscommon in Ruislip on May 24th.
London hurling team has done well in recent years in
winning the Christy Ring Cup in 2012 and so qualified
for the Liam McCarthy Cup over the past two years. No
joy in 2013 and again last year in the McCarthy, and
because they finished bottom of the new 2014 Leinster
Championship Qualifying Group, London are back in
the Christy Ring this year. Their first game in Div 2A of
the National League is on Feb 14th versus County Westmeath just below them in the event last year, so London
will be looking to maintain and improve form in the
2015 league.

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