Geraghty may miss out on Royal return

MEATH boss Seamus McEnaney last night handed out senior championship debuts to U21 duo Bryan Menton and Ciaran Lenehan for Sunday’s Leinster quarter-final against Kildare in Croke Park but the involvement of veteran forward Graham Geraghty remains unclear as the list of Royal County substitutes has yet to be released.

Menton and Lenehan will line up in the half-back line alongside team captain Seamus Kenny in a rearguard that has undergone dramatic changes from last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Kildare.

Kevin Reilly and Gary O’Brien are the only defensive survivors with Anthony Moyles and Caoimhin King amongst those not included. The Meath attack is along familiar lines with five of the offensive sextet from that loss to the Lilywhites named here but the 38-year-old Geraghty, dramatically recalled to the panel recently by McEnaney, will have to be satisfied — at best — with a place on the bench.