McEneaney has big plans for Wee County

SIXTEEN years have elapsed since these two last bumped into one another in the Leinster Championship but the meeting for which this fixture will always be remembered was played two years earlier in Croke Park.

Laois were seven points up in the provincial semi-final with time almost up when all hell broke loose. The mayhem lasted no more than a minute but spilled from one parallelogram to the opposing ‘40’.

The counties were fairly regular bedfellows at that time so maybe familiarity bred contempt but the remainder of their 19 meetings have rarely garnered many headlines, good, bad or indifferent.