Meath's only daddy carries no Dublin baggage

Win or lose at Croke Park tomorrow you will probably find a bleary-eyed Ben Brennan clutching a bottle in the wee hours of Monday morning. Yet while team-mates may be celebrating a famous win or, as seems more likely, drowning their sorrows after defeat to Dublin, 27-year-old Brennan will be back on baby duty with his son, Tadhg.

Life changed for the Meath free-taker last December when baby Tadhg arrived, commanding his attention and catapulting him into a new category as the only player on the Meath panel who is a daddy.