All-Ireland Junior Football Championship semi-final<\/p>\n
London 0-15 New York 0-13<\/p>\n
After extra time<\/p>\n
By Paul Keane at GAA National Games Development Centre, Abbotstown<\/p>\n
Finally, a win over New York in the All-Ireland JFC, London have waited a while to be able to say that.<\/p>\n
Beaten by New York in the 2024 and 2025 All-Ireland finals, and by a point on each occasion, London finally came out on top, although they required a punishing period of extra time to get over the line.<\/p>\n
Just like the earlier semi-final, the sides couldn’t be separated after 60 minutes with London coughing up a five-point lead with six minutes to go.<\/p>\n
But Paul Coggins’ crew made sure of the win in the end, coming good with a series of extra-time points from Conor Redican, Noel Maher, Se\u00e1n Hickey, Luke Morahan and Shaun McCready to secure their final place.<\/p>\n
Truth be told, it wasn’t a classic but London won’t care after their near misses in recent years at the hands of New York.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Maher has given solid service to London in recent years and delivered again with five points in all, including a two-pointer in the first half of extra time.<\/p>\n
With the first semi-final, won by USGAA, also going to extra time at the Blanchardstown venue, it remains to be seen just what toll this takes on the two teams ahead of Sunday’s decider.<\/p>\n
What’s certain is that will be an occasion to remember in Croke Park ahead of the sold out All-Ireland SFC semi-final tie between Dublin and Kerry.<\/p>\n
London, who secured a three-in-a-row of All-Britain titles last month, will hope to make it All-Ireland junior title number seven having last came out on top in 1986.<\/p>\n
Since 2022, the competition has been run as an outlet principally for overseas teams and it will be the first final in that period not to feature New York.<\/p>\n
London returned to the All-Ireland series this evening with nine starters from last year’s final team and, initially at least, looked like a side desperate for success.<\/p>\n
They dominated the opening half and were full value for their 0-7 to 0-1 advantage at half time.<\/p>\n
Redican, who struck three points in last month’s 1-13 to 1-11 All-Ireland Britain final defeat of Warwickshire, got them going with two early singles.<\/p>\n
Then Maher converted a 45 and when Ali Carney fired just over with a goal chance in the 20th minute, London had four points on the board and New York had yet to score.<\/p>\n
London did have the breeze behind them but it was still a disappointment from the holders’ perspective as they lined out with a dozen players who featured in last year’s final win.<\/p>\n
Shay McElligott scored their only point of the half in the 22nd minute, from a free won by Lorcan Kennedy.<\/p>\n
Whatever difficulties New York suffered in the first half, they seemed to transfer across to London after the restart.<\/p>\n
Mick Healy’s New York improved significantly too, outscoring London by 0-8 to 0-2 in that half hour or so to shove the game to extra time.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a classic, despite the evening sunshine and fast pitch, and London looked like they’d hold on when leading by 0-9 to 0-4 with 54 minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n
But McElligott really came alive in the closing minutes, firing three singles and a two-pointer to force the game to extra time at 0-9 apiece.<\/p>\n
McElligott’s seventh point of the evening put New York ahead early in extra time but Maher’s two-pointer was a significant score and London scored three points in a row in the second half to finally seal it.<\/p>\n
London scorers: Noel Maher 0-5 (0-2 45, 0-1 tp), Conor Redican 0-3 (0-1f), Caol\u00e1n Doyle 0-2 (0-2f), Luke Morahan 0-2, Ali Carney 0-1, Se\u00e1n Hickey 0-1, Shaun McCready 0-1.<\/p>\n
New York scorers: Shay McElligott 0-7 (0-4f, 1 tp), Brian Coughlan 0-3 (1 tpf), Jack Gleeson 0-1, Senan Price 0-1, Aaron Traynor 0-1.<\/p>\n
London: Caol\u00e1n Doyle; Ryan McCready, Jack Power, John Lavelle; Luke Morahan, Donncha Byrne, Eoin McGivney; Conor Redmond, Conor Redican; Terry Gallagher, Noel Maher, Matthew Joyce; Shaun McCready, Ali Carney, Se\u00e1n Gaynor.<\/p>\n
Subs: Niall McGivney for Gallagher 35, Alfie McNulty for Gaynor 42, Se\u00e1n Hickey for Shaun McCready 47, Jamie Murphy for Joyce 48-52, Murphy for Joyce 57. Shaun McCready for Hickey e\/t, Joyce for Murphy e\/t, Murphy for Redmond 65, Hickey for Carney 67, Eoghan Reilly for Power 76.<\/p>\n
New York: Patrick Guerin; Aaron Traynor, Dylan Curran, P\u00e1id\u00ed Mathers; Ian Kavanagh, Rory O’Riordan, Emmet Loughran; Fintan Corbett, Conor Mathers; Lorcan Kennedy, Chris Mulvihill, Danny Corridan; Jack Gleeson, Brian Coughlan, Shay McElligott.<\/p>\n
Subs used: Liam Rafferty for Curran 37, Nicky Lange for Kennedy 42, Tiernan McLoughlin for Mulvihill 43, Seamus Carolan for Corridan 58. Ronan Melly for Mathers e\/t, Senan Price for Corbett e\/t, Corbett for Kavanagh 67, Kennedy for Loughran 80, Mathers for Carolan 80.<\/p>\n
Referee: Ian Howley (Dublin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Junior Football Championship semi-final London 0-15 New York 0-13 After extra time By Paul Keane at GAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-543584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}