Settled cores propel Cork and Meath to top of Division 2

Cork and Meath will both go into Sunday's clash at Páirc Uí Rinn viewing the game as a promotion decider

Robbie Brennan's Meath are living up to the targets Colm O'Rourke set out for the county when he took over as Royals manager in 2022. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

One of Colm O'Rourke's first acts as Meath manager was to put it up to Dublin.

"I would regard that we will have failed if we don't beat Dublin," he said immediately after his appointment in July, 2022.