North East Meath

what is going on with clubs struggling in north east meath , only teams left are in junior , junior b , is it time to amalgamate clubs or go down the kerry route it seems to work down there , this would stop bigger clubs sniffing around these smaller clubs for there better players

brian (Meath) - Posts: 2001 - 09/09/2026 13:50:18    2693278

Proudroyal (Meath) - Posts: 427 - 10/09/2026 12:30:35    2693396

Its a strange one... if you would consider Rathkenny Northeast, theyve been great for many years at senior, very competitive and producing inter-county players etc.

I would agree that the whole Slane/Lobinstown/Seneschalstown area tends to be weaker than it has been in decades past. Duleek and Bellewstown amalgamating pointed to a lack of resource in one or both of those clubs. In general, an old chestnut of Meath football is that if you drew a line on the map from Navan over to Stamullen on one side and Navan to Athboy on the other, everything above that "line"
is the north;the poor house if you will, and everything below is the crucible of Meath football. The North/South divide has always been there - we're all Meathmen but you have to be honest and say a fellow from Kells or Oldcastle or Drumconrath isnt much different to a Cavan-man, Louthman, Monaghan man etc, and the folks in the south are people with soft Dublin accents. Its just a reality within the county, or a perception at best. How do you tackle it? honestly not sure if it can be.

Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 628 - 10/09/2026 12:31:10    2693397

So you're saying people south of that line share the same cultural characteristics, accent etc? I'd argue the south is very east /est divided. Ballivor, boardsmill, trim, longwood,Athboy areas generally share a lot culturally. The fact people from killyon might go to Athboy secondary school, and Ballivor go to school also in trim sometimes so shared friendships as far as kilmessan . I think there's very little in common once you go from Westmeath border in south west beyond Summerhill and kilmessan. I'd say a straight line from navan downwards to Summerhill through kilmessan is cultural border between south west and south east, someone in longwood or boardsmill has virtually no connection or interaction with someone on Ashbourne or curraha.

dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 995 - 17/09/2026 12:19:14    2694085