Wild Geese (Irish: Na Géanna Fiáine CLG ) are a GAA club based in Oldtown, Fingal.
[citation needed] Other GAA clubs in the surrounding area at the time included the Garristown Liberators and Magh go Bragh of Naul.
The club in Oldtown was called Wild Geese to commemorate those who left Ireland to serve in the militaries of other countries.
Royal Irish Constabulary records show that the club had 40 members in 1889 and 1890 meeting in Oldtown and Ballyboghill.
Patrick Archer reformed the club in 1935 but it disbanded again sometime before 1947 before regrouping again in a year where the GAA appeared to undergo something of a revival in the area with Fingal Ravens, Garristown and Man O’War also affiliating.
Meeting were held in Hurley makers Owen and Tommie Butlers and they travelled to matches in their van.
The name Wild Geese made an appearance in ‘Gaelic weekly’ in 1954 where it was revealed the club had purchased a field and sown a crop of wheat.
Wild Geese played Ballyboughal on a challenge game at Damastown Sports in 1954 also with a picture of the team featuring in the Irish independent.
Wild Geese were listed as one of eleven clubs who owned or leased their grounds in a special report by the county board.
In 1968, the club started work on the first full size indoor handball alley[1] in the country, this was completed in 1969, Oldtown subsequently produced a series of world champions.
In subsequent years Oriol Hally-Garcia, Dara O'Brien and Nathan McCaffrey were selected for the Fingal county hurling panel.
They also lost out in the Quarter Finals of the Championship to eventual winners St. Joseph's OCB, who on their day would have been a match for many senior teams.
Former Fingal hurling manager Mick Kennedy came on board and offered the team additional coaching experience.