25 years ago today, Meath celebrated winning the National Football League Division 1 title at Armagh’s expense.

On May 1st, 1994, the Robbie O’Malley captained Royals registered a 2-11 to 0-8 victory over the Orchard County at Croke Park to claim the county’s seventh Division 1 crown.

Bernard Flynn raised two green flags for the winners while Trevor Giles announced his arrival on the inter-county scene with a return of seven points.

Meath qualified for the quarter finals along with Laois from Division 2 and were promoted to Division 1 for the 1994-95 NFL. Down were defeated in the last eight 0-13 to 1-9 and neighbours Westmeath, who had topped Division 4, were beaten in the semi final 0-15 to 0-11 at Croke Park.

Meath – D Smith; B O’Malley, M O’Connell, T Hanley; G Geraghty, C Murphy, B Reilly; J McGuinness, PJ Gillic (0-1); N Dunne, C O’Rourke (0-1), T Giles (0-7); B Flynn (2-0), T Dowd (0-1), J Devine (0-1). Sub: B Stafford for Dunne.

Armagh – B Tierney; D Clarke, G Reid, J Rafferty; D Horisk, K McGeeney, M McQuillan (0-1): N Smyth (0-2), J Burns; C O’Rourke (0-2), K McGurk (0-1), D Marsden; B O’Hagan (0-1), G Houlahan (0-1), J McConville. Subs: J Grimley for O’Hagan, D Macken for Marsden, J Toner for O’Rourke.

Referee – T McDermott (Cavan).

Front l-r: PJ Gillic, Jody Devine, Robbie O'Malley, Tommy Dowd, Bernard Flynn, Trevor Giles, Neville Dunne, Tom Hanley. Back l-r: Colm O'Rourke, Graham Geraghty, Jimmy McGuinness, Donal Smith, Martin O'Connell, Cormac Murphy, Brendan Reilly.

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