The Meath Under 16 squad capped a very good Saturday with wins in the Gerry Reilly Cup and the Tedd Webb Cup.

Following on from their opening round win over Louth in Ballinlough the young Royals made the long trip to Clare GAA Centre of Excellence and claimed a comfortable 4-14 to 1-10 win. The visitors were 0-10 to 0-2 in front at half time playing against the wind. 

Meath squad v Clare: Ciarán Reilly, Conall O'Reilly(0-01), Conor Rispin, Sam Brady (0-2 0-1F), Matthew Hyland, Louis Crawley (0-01), Eoghan Barry, Ben Grief, Oisín Giles (0-01), Jamie Quirke, Ruairí McDermott (0-01), Caelan O'Dowd (1-0), Cathal Byrne, Sam Walsh (1-0), James McEntee (0-01), Craig Foley (1-2), Kealan Sheerin, Ben Gaughran, Oran Conneely, Joe Kearney (1-01 0-03F), Rían Carolan, Liam Fagan, Evan Callaghan

Closer to home in Grangegodden, Meath recovered from their opening round defeat with a 3-19 to 1-5 victory over Galway. With goals from James Heery and Danny Gorman the home side led 2-8 to 0-3 at the break. Meath totally dominated the opening twenty minutes of the second half and when top scorer Conor Hassett raised their third green flag Meath were well on their way to victory.

Meath squad v Galway: Dara Loughran, Conor Hassett 1-7, Eanna Kenny 0-1, Sean Kirwan, Eanna Horgan, Conor Beggy, Conor Beggy, Callum McKeown, Harry Murphy, Cillian Burke, James Heery 1-0, Conan Clarke 0-2, Darragh Harkin 0-1, Cillian Fitzsimons 0-3, Ben Browne, Charlie Reuter 0-1, Harry Clarke-Murphy, Conall McEntee, Darragh Reynolds 0-1, Bobby Lynam, Camren Harte, Cian O’Donnell 0-1, Danny Gorman 1-2, Harry Keating.

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