Meath: why should we offer a replay?

THE howls of protest will gush from the Wee county deep into the summer and beyond but any slim chance of Meath offering a rematch disappeared into the ether within half-an-hour of yesterday’s astonishing end game.

This wasn’t how Eamonn O’Brien or anyone else in Meath wanted to claim a first Leinster senior title in nine years but they’ll be damned if anyone thinks they should apologise for the manner in which they won it.

“I don’t know where that is coming from,” said O’Brien when it was put to him that his side’s late act of larceny merited a second chance for Louth.