Leinster needs a battle royal
In June of last year both teams played out what was quite possibly one of the most insipid shows in their 58-match long rivalry. In a game most likely to be remembered for full forward, Mark Davoren’s cruciate injury, Dublin won by two points but in reality, the gulf in class was much wider than the scoreboard reflected.
There was very little to suggest to either Pat Gilroy or Eamon O’Brien, both making their championship bows on the sideline, that the year would pan out as it did — Meath doing themselves no great discredit with a stubborn but ultimately disappointing display in an All-Ireland semi-final and Dublin’s display in the quarter-final a month earlier plunging them into the period of deep introspection from which they’ve yet to emerge.
