O’Brien hails huge effort

THE endeavour of both teams in trying circumstances was foremost in Eamonn O’Brien’s mind when he discussed what had occurred out in Croke Park for the previous 90 minutes.

At times, the downpour was beyond torrential and if that made handling extremely difficult – just ask the unfortunate Mickey Nolan – and called on a level of desire that the 44 players who saw action had in abundance.

“The effort from our lads and the effort from Laois was excellent” said the Meath boss.