Ambitious Meath hit the ground running

Meath 1-10 Armagh 0-8: On goes Meath’s winter of content.

O’Byrne Cup champions for the first time in a decade after last Sunday week’s defeat of Longford, Mick O’Dowd’s side followed up yesterday with an ultimately convincing Division 2 defeat of an Armagh outfit that failed to trouble the scoreboard once in the second-half.

The visitors’ frustrations began to tell in the last ten minutes of a game played up to then in an impeccable manner: wing-back Aidan Forker saw red on the back of two yellows and Miceal McKenna followed with a black card in injury-time.