Some old, some new as Meath get going in the land of yellow and blue

MEATH…0-29

MAYO…2-22

Possibly due to the turmoil one has been dealing with in a personal sense, combined with the amount of matches which are now available to view across various platforms, it’s as if the dastardly split season never existed. A feeling accentuated by the fact that Robbie Brennan and the Meath senior footballers are back together and ramping up preparations for the National Football League opener against Derry on January 24th.

The lads have been steadily tipping away at gym work in St Peter’s, Dunboyne in recent weeks and on Sunday last matters got going in earnest when a Royal County ensemble travelled to Glennon Brothers Pearse Park and took on Mayo – who were having their first outing under new manager Andy Moran. The Ballaghadreen man included Kobe McDonald in their line up, despite the Crossmolina/Deel Rovers lad being among the latest raft of players poached by AFL or AFLW clubs as the GAA/LGFA sit idly by and do nothing about it.

Anyway, the green and red very much had the better of things in the first half and led by a dozen points at the turnaround. But, backed by the stiff midlands breeze, Meath again displayed their aptitude with the modern incarnation of Gaelic football and that their shooting boots hadn’t lost any of their efficiency during their collective downtime.

MEATH – S. Brennan (Dunderry); B. O’Halloran (Ballivor), S. Rafferty (Na Fianna), J. Muldoon (Gaeil Colmcille); K. Smyth (Castletown), S. Coffey (Ballinabrackey), C. Caulfield (Trim); J. Flynn (Ratoath), C. McBride (St Ultan’s); C. Hickey (Seneschalstown), R. Kinsella (Dunshaughlin), M. Costello (Dunshaughlin); A. Lynch (Trim), D. Moriarity (Curraha), T. O’Reilly (Wolfe Tones).

SUBS USED – S. Gibney (Moylagh), G. Dwane (Trim), J. O’Regan (Skryne), C. Gray (Dunshaughlin), A. O’Neill (Wolfe Tones), C. O’Connor (Dunshaughlin), S. O’Fionnagain (Wolfe Tones), R. McConnell (Castletown), Ross Ryan (Summerhill), O. Martin (Wolfe Tones).