{"id":1085194,"date":"2026-07-12T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1085194\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:18:27","slug":"five-goal-london-finally-come-good-to-claim-all-ireland-junior-football-title-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1085194\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-goal London finally come good to claim All-Ireland junior football title \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All-Ireland Junior Football Final: London 5-12 (5-2-8) USA 0-17 (0-0-17)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Goals galore for London at Croke Park and, finally, the All-Ireland Junior Football title this group have craved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After narrow defeats to New York in 2024 and 2025 deciders, Paul Coggins\u2019 crew returned with fresh motivation and duly delivered, capturing a seventh title for London in the grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Having exacted revenge on New York on Friday evening in Abbotstown, beating the holders after extra time, they led this final pretty much from pillar to post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Shaun McCready scored 2-2 while Conor Redican, Alfie McNulty and substitute Niall McGivney all added goals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Luke Morahan celebrates London&#x2019;s fifth goal. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo\/Inpho\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TAAHBT7ESWXVS2G4LXQXNVDP54.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Luke Morahan celebrates London\u2019s fifth goal. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo\/Inpho <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There was a period of concern midway through the first half when USA \u2013 made up of players from Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston \u2013 reeled off seven unanswered points, cancelling out London\u2019s early 1-4 to level the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But when McCready cracked in his first goal just before half-time, leaving London 2-5 to 0-8 ahead, they never looked back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Captain Noel Maher scored a monster pair of two-pointer frees in the third quarter, and McCready\u2019s second goal in the 47th minute put eight points between the sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But USA didn\u2019t wilt, hitting bursts of three and four points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, London\u2019s cushion proved vital, and late goals from McGivney and McNulty glossed the scoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>LONDON: <\/b>C Doyle (0-0-1f); J Lavelle, J Power, R McCready; E McGivney, C Redican (1-0-2, 1f), D Byrne; C Redmond, N Maher (0-2-0, 2tpf); T Gallagher (0-0-1), L Morahan, M Joyce; S Gaynor (0-0-1), S McCready (2-0-2), A McNulty (1-0-1). <b>Subs: <\/b>J Murphy for Byrne (26 mins), M Tierney for Gallagher (ht), S Hickey for Gaynor (43), C Morris for Redmond (48), N McGivney (1-0-0) for Joyce (57).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>USA:<\/b> B Bowler; S Gavin, O Sheehan, C Coyle; O Ward, J Lynch, R Orford (0-0-3); E Morrissey, M Dunphy; C Sheehan, B McDaid, D Murtagh (0-0-2, 1f); D Kelly (0-0-1), E Gormley (0-0-5, 1f), M Moylan (0-0-4, 3f). <b>Subs: <\/b>M Murphy for Sheehan (21 mins), M Kerr (0-0-2f) for Dunphy (41), L Lenke for Moylan (45), T Kelly for Ward (48), S Ward for Kelly (53).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>Referee: <\/b>K Eannetta (Tyrone).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Junior Football Final: London 5-12 (5-2-8) USA 0-17 (0-0-17) Goals galore for London at Croke Park and,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1085195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,296800,4884,257,63539,35910,16,15],"class_list":["post-1085194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-football-championship","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-london-gaa","tag-match-report","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116908859592052606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}