TG4 All Ireland Senior Championship – Group 2 - Round 1
Cork v Meath - St Brendans Park, Birr.
This one promises to be an extremely interesting game in Birr. Cork, smarting from a Division 1 Lidl NFL Final loss to Dublin, come up against a Meath side high on confidence.
The Royals collected the Division 2 title recently and with it, promotion to the top flight.
And this fixture is their first back in the Senior Championship ranks, after emerging from the Intermediate grade with an All-Ireland Final victory over Westmeath last December.
Cork will start as favourites but any they’ll need to be on it right from the start against a Meath side that will show absolutely no fear.
Meath have a forward line capable of wreaking havoc but Cork are similar, with the likes of Orla Finn and emerging talent Sadhbh O’Leary marked out as genuine scoring threats.
Cork (v Meath): M O’Brien (capt.); M Cahalane, R Phelan, E Meaney; E O’Shea, A Hutchings, M Duggan; M O’Callaghan, H Looney; L Coppinger, C O’Sullivan, O Finn; S O’Leary, B O’Sullivan, K Quirke.
Meath (v Cork): M McGuirk; E Troy, M.K. Lynch, K Newe; A Leahy, A Cleary, O Byrne; V Wall, M O’Shaughnessy; S Ennis (capt.), S Grimes, N O’Sullivan; S Melia, E Duggan, B Lynch.
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