MEATH secretary Cyril Creavin fears the county’s search for a new senior football boss may drag on until 2011 if Seamus McEnaney is not ratified at tonight’s crunch board meeting in Navan.

The shockwaves raised by Eamonn O’Brien’s ousting were still reverberating around Meath yesterday with officials, players and supporters struggling to come to terms with Monday night’s dramatic events.

THE shockwaves raised by Eamonn O’Brien’s ousting were still reverberating around Meath yesterday with officials, players and supporters struggling to come to terms with Monday night’s dramatic events.

Meath GAA secretary Cyril Creavin has described the past few days since Sunday's Leinster SFC final win over Louth as ‘hell’, after the Royal County were backed into a corner to offer a replay to their neighbours.

Meath County Board officials today expressed their regret at the departure of Colm Coyle as the Royals senior football manager and the retirements of veteran players Graham Geraghty and Darren Fay.