Champions Summerhill impressively advanced to the SFC quarter-finals with a 5-13 to 0-8 win over a poor Nobber side at Walterstown yesterday.

The knives are being sharpened, the guns oiled. Seamus McEnaney’s detractors in Meath have their ammunition.

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.

SEAMUS McENANEY’S appointment as Meath manager last winter may have stirred up a hornet’s nest at the time — and continues to do so — but ‘outside’ influences haven’t been confined to the man charged with guiding the senior footballers.

DUNSHAUGHLIN turned the clock back to reach the Meath SFC final for the first time since 2002 when completing their three-in-a-row sequence of success over hot favourites Donaghmore/Ashbourne at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

HOLDERS Skryne failed to make it through to the last eight of the Meath SFC despite defeating already qualified Dunboyne by 0-13 to 0-7 at Navan’s Páirc Tailteann on Saturday evening.

DIFFERENT sport, different day, but this was depressingly reminiscent of Ireland’s facile defeat of Canada in Thomond Park on Saturday with one side doing what they wanted, when they wanted against an inferior opponent.

Meath manager Eamonn Barry is on the lookout for a new selector after the resignation of Andy McEntee was confirmed today.

Meath veteran forward Ollie Murphy is struggling with injury ahead of the Leinster football quarter-final showdown against Dublin on June 5 after damaging his groin during a club tie at the weekend.

Meath attacker Niall Kelly was rushed to Navan hospital on Sunday night after taking a blow to the kidney during the day's National Football League Division Two final defeat to Monaghan at Croke Park.

MEATH forward Niall Kelly was rushed to Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan on Sunday night after shipping a blow to the kidneys during the county’s NFL Division Two final defeat to Monaghan at Croke Park.

JIM BETTS claimed at last evening’s weigh-in that he was in Dublin to spoil Bernard Dunne’s homecoming party at the National Stadium but the Irishman was having none of it.

TREVOR GILES is still in limbo before Sunday’s Meath SFC final.

Dunboyne herbalist Sean Boylan has defeated Eamonn Barry in the Meath managerial vote for a third successive year, guaranteeing a 23rd season at the helm of the Royals.

Meath football boss Sean Boylan has dropped a number of big name players from his panel, including former All-Ireland winner Nigel Nestor.

MEATH will still be without Trevor Giles, Daithi Regan, David Crimmins and Ollie Murphy for their Division I B clash with Galway at Páirc Táilteann on Sunday.

Meath boss Sean Boylan has backed controversial football star Graham Geraghty and called for the 48-year week sentence imposed on him to be reduced.

Jubilant St Brigids boss Paddy Clarke has revealed he's on the trail of a Leinster club title after Sunday's historic Dublin SFC win.

BEN DUNNE faces the biggest assignment of his boxing career to date when he goes national for his eighth professional fight at the Mountaineer Racetrack and Gaming Resort, in Chester, West Virginia, tomorrow night.

MANAGER Brian Peters was last night going through a list of more than 50 possible opponents for featherweight sensation Ben Dunne after his sensational first round demolition of Oscar Rosales at the Wild Wild West Casino in Oklahoma at the weekend.

Former AllStar James Nallen is fit to play for Crossmolina in Monday's All-Ireland club final against Nemo Rangers despite a hamstring tear.

BERNARD DUNNE faces the biggest pay day of his professional boxing career to date when he takes on Oscar Villa over four rounds at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, Los Angeles, on Saturday night.

COLIN CORKERY won his second straight AIB GAA provincial player award in the AIB Bankcentre yesterday, while Athenry’s star forward Eugene Cloonan became the first player to win three awards.

Crossmolina boss John Maughan voiced his opinion on the controversial decision to send Dunshaughlin ace Niall Kelly to the line at Hyde Park during Sunday's All-Ireland club semi-final.

Crossmolina 3-10 Dunshaughlin 1-12

ON paper, to borrow a ridiculously over-used phrase, tomorrow's 'other' All-Ireland semi-final won't be much of a contest. After all, you have Crossmolina fighting out of the Connacht corner, with their array of talent and an All-Ireland medal to fall back on. For Dunshaughlin, the Leinster champions, Dr Hyde Park represents uncharted territory.

Mayo boss John Maughan has made two changes to his side ahead of Sunday's NFL Div 1B clash with Laois in Ballinrobe.

CORK footballer Colin Corkery, who was controversially overlooked on the 2002 Allstar selection, was yesterday named AIB Munster Provincial Footballer of the year for the second consecutive season.

BERNARD DUNNE’S manager, Brian Peters, returned from the US last night to weigh up his options for the Dubliner’s next bout following his first round demolition of rookie Erik Trujillo in Las Vegas at the weekend.

DUBLINER Ben Dunne hopes to finish off his apprenticeship in style when he boxes his final four-rounder against Eric Trujillo, a reigning Golden Gloves champion from Colorado, at Sam’s Town Casino in Las Vegas tomorrow night.

REVENGE may not be mentioned openly down Collon way in Louth this week, yet it seems to lurk silently around every footballing corner of the county.

Rathnew boss Harry Murphy has revealed he'd love Dunshaughlin to go on and achieve the ultimate success by picking up an All-Ireland club title.

FOR those who enjoy a gamble, you could do worse than putting a few quid on a draw in Newbridge tomorrow. At 13/2, it looks like the bet of the weekend, better value than Bolton inflicting another defeat on Leeds.

ALL eyes will settle on Newbridge this Sunday as Rathnew and Dunshaughlin commence a new chapter in their Leinster club championship history.

TOMMY GILL’S virtuoso performance against UCD ensured one thing.

Rathnew boss Harry Murphy considered the prospect of meeting Dunshaughlin for the seventh time in three years and admitted: "It'll be our toughest game yet."

Dunshaughlin boss Eamonn Barry has admitted there's a "natural desire" to be rooting for another Leinster SFC match-up with old rivals Rathnew.

The Meath County Board will decide tonight whether to reappoint Sean Boylan as manager of the county’s senior football team.