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With Dublin and Meath preparing to do battle in the Leinster Senior Football Championship once more this weekend. Conor Martin looks back at Dublin’s 1995 Leinster Senior Football Championship final triumph over the Royals. A win that would help pave the way for Dublin to lift Sam Maguire come September of that year.
The points started to flow at Croke Park just 15 seconds in when John McDermott burst forward and pointed for Meath with the very first attack of the game.
Back came Dublin through Charlie Redmond, Mick Galvin and Dessie Farrell, who got themselves on the scoresheet. At the other end, Colm O’Rourke was doing the business for Meath, but Dublin would have a useful advantage of 0-8 to 0-4 at half-time, with Farrell and Redmond contributing five out of Dublin’s first-half total of eight.
Games between these two have a history of being close and Meath went about getting back into the final and they did exactly that when Evan Kelly levelled for Meath with a goal. Meath then took the lead thanks to Graham Geraghty, who kicked a point that went high and handsome and over the Dublin bar.
Dublin continued to win the majority of the on-pitch battles and found themselves three up thanks to a brace of scorers from Paul Clarke and Redmond before Jason Sherlock’s shot looped and then dropped into the Meath danger zone. Clarke leapt highest to fist the ball past Conor Martin in the Meath net to give the Boys in Blue a 1-13 to 1-7 lead with just over 20 minutes to play.
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