An intriguing feature of the build-up to Meath’s first championship outing was the positivity of the players and their insistence that Dublin aren’t unbeatable.

Mick O’Dowd has ruled former skipper Kevin Reilly out of Meath’s Leinster championship opener with Wicklow and admitted it’ll be a ‘bonus’ if the stricken defender does return at some point in the campaign.

If the Myth of Sisyphus rings true for any team in Gaelic games, it’s surely the Meath footballers.

Meath 1-14 DCU 1-14: Meath will have key attackers Stephen Bray and Mickey Newman available for their O’Byrne Cup clash with Dublin.

Meath manager Mick O’Dowd is praying the second coming of Shane O’Rourke will solve his midfield dilemma.

Meath’s Leinster championship challenge has been rocked by the loss of midfielder Conor Gillespie for the rest of the season.

Meath SFC: Reigning Meath champions Summerhill revived their prospects of back-to-back SFC titles following a comprehensive 2-12 to 0-9 win over Rathkenny at Walterstown yesterday.

Meath footballer Conor Gillespie has called on the Leinster Council to force Dublin to play at least one provincial game outside of Croke Park.

Kerry make two changes from the team that lost to Dublin for tomorrow’s Division 1 round two clash with Derry in Killarney.

Meath 4-18 DCU 3-06

St Vincent’s (Dublin) 1-14 Summerhill (Meath) 1-10

Limerick's Na Piarsaigh and Castlebar Mitchels took AIB Munster Hurling and Connacht Football Senior provincial titles respectively, while Portlaoise and St. Vincent's advanced to the Leinster Club SFC Final today.

Meath champions Navan O’Mahonys strolled through to the county SFC quarter-finals with a 0-10 to 0-5 victory over Seneschalstown in yesterday’s fourth-round clash at Stamullen.

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Dublin 2-15 Meath 0-14

Mickey Burke has been named in the Meath team to take on defending champions Dublin in Sunday's Leinster SFC final at Croke Park (throw-in 2pm).

There’s been much discussion and debate in recent weeks about both the structures of the championship and the quality of games we have seen to date.

Meath 0-18 Wexford 0-13

There are two changes to the Meath defence for their Leinster SFC semi-final clash with Wexford at Croke Park on Sunday (throw-in 2pm).

I don’t often agree with Pat Spillane but he was 100% right when he said yesterday’s TV games were hard to sit through.

Meath manager Mick O'Dowd has included two Championship debutants in his team to face Wicklow in Saturday's Leinster SFC quarter-final in Aughrim (throw-in 7pm).

Meath 1-17 Sligo 2-12

Wicklow 0-8 Meath 0-16

Monaghan 1-18 Meath 2-03

Cian Ward will replace the injured Stephen Bray in the Meath team to play Laois in tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier.

Dublin 2-13 Meath 1-13

He may have been one of the best players of his generation but Trevor Giles was always an understated superstar and that penchant for modesty is alive and well these days as he works on the minds and bodies of those following in his footsteps.

County boundaries have always provided the most fertile of grounds for deep-seated rivalries in the GAA but some enmities are bred by means other than geography.

Graham Geraghty revealed Meath’s victory in Sunday’s Leinster semi-final was more for the players than anybody else.

Nobody expected Lazarus would rise from the dead.

Putting All-Ireland titles back to back is not an easy task.

Meath 1-17 Kildare 1-11

Meath 2-21 Carlow 0-09

Ballinabrackey's Damien Carroll has been named in the Meath team to take on Carlow in tomorrow's Leinster SFC quarter-final replay in Tullamore (throw-in 7pm).

On a weekend of championship shocks, the unfortunate reality for once mighty Meath was that this stalemate probably wasn’t one of them.

Carlow 1-12 Meath 1-12

Stephen Bray will return from injury to lead the Meath attack in Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Carlow at O'Connor Park (throw-in 2pm).

There are four Championship debutants selected in the Meath team to face Wicklow in Sunday's Leinster SFC first round clash at Dr Cullen Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

Seamus McEnaney got one over his former charges as Meath had a winning start to the Allianz Football League Division 2 at the expense of his native Monaghan at Navan on Saturday night.

NOT a classic in Navan by any means yet a replay that won’t easily be forgotten, 120 energy sapping minutes failing to separate the teams.

IT says everything about the topsy-turvy nature of this game that both teams will look back on theclosing credits of yesterday’s Meath SFC final and balance regrets with gratitude.

Dublin 2-16 Meath 2-14