to Division 10. In 2008 they reached the Junior E Football Championship Final, losing out to Park Rangers. In 2009 they again made the final and defeated St. Brendan’s of Grangegorman. The club also enjoyed successive promotions in 2009 they were promoted from Division 10 North to Division 9. In 2010 they were promoted to Division 8. The club won the Sheridan Cup in 2007 and 2009. In 2010 they were defeated by Stars of Erin of Glencullen in the Junior D Football Championship. Football Roll of Honour 2014 Promoted to Dublin AFL Div. 7 2010 Dublin Junior D Football Championship Runners Up 2010 Promoted to Dublin AFL Div. 8 2009 Dublin Junior E Football Championship Winners 2009 Dublin AFL Div. 10: Runners Up 2008 Dublin Junior E Football Championship Runners Up 2007, 2009 Sheridan Cup Winners 1986 McArdle Cup Winners 1931 Feis Cup Winners Hurling Hurling in Oldtown dates back to the 19th century. Founding member Patrick Archer found that the older people in the area were able to recall that hurling was a popular sport in Fingal up to around the 1820 and called camanachd, a word still used in Scotland describing their own native stick game, shinty. The decline of hurling coincides with the Tithe war, the O’Connell campaign, the resulting decline in landlord-tenant relations and the farmers unwilling to lend their fields for games to be played as they at times ended in melees. Another influence was the Catholic Church who disapproved of the dances that took place after games. In 2008 Wild Geese set up a hurling team and entered into Division 7 of the 8 divisions at the time and the Junior E Championship. Members of the hurling team did not all play football with the club with some playing with Fingal Ravens, Garristown, Clann Mhuire, Ballyboughal. They failed to win a game that season and were relegated to Division 8. The following year was to be their most successful to date. Wild Geese won Division 8 defeating Setanta of Ballymun in the league final. They also took part in the Leinster hurling league and entered an Under 21 team into the hurling championship. They hosted the first ever Gus Warren Challenge Cup game against Erin go Bragh winning 2-9 to 2-5. Mattie Lambe was also selected for the Fingal county hurling panel. In subsequent years Oriol Hally-Garcia, Dara O'Brien and Nathan McCaffrey were