Sean Barry: Young Meath will rise again

Sean Barry is confident the death of Meath underage football has been greatly exaggerated.

Rather, the Meath U21 boss, who presided over two alarming results this year and faces Kerry on Saturday, says the barren streak is more to do with the lifeline of key players being removed from him.

Meath’s U21s suffered the ignominy of a 4-12 to 0-1 loss to Roscommon in the Hastings Cup tournament last weekend. Big things were expected of this group, having contested the All-Ireland MFC final three years ago.