Buzz back in Meath, says Royal master

PICKING up his 12-year-old daughter from horse-riding last Tuesday night, Seán Boylan became fully aware of how the seemingly trivial case of an O’Byrne Cup Shield final had suddenly become much more important.

“The first thing she said to me in the car was ‘Meath and Dublin on Saturday, daddy’,” laughed Boylan after the Royals qualified for tomorrow’s final that evening.

“Doireann was only a year old when we won the All-Ireland (in 1999) so she wouldn’t remember how things were.