Hurling’s home away from home in London

A small group of hurlers gather around a kitchen table in Kilburn, London.

Names of players with Galway and Waterford links punctuate the conversation.

Galway’s Brendan Lynskey returned from St Gabriels to win an All-Ireland with the Tribesmen in 1987 and Roger Cashin from Waterford was on the famed London team of ’73 that beat Galway in that year’s All Ireland quarter-final. Gerry Rea, from Limerick, who is leading the conversation on this wet Wednesday night, captained that side.