Banty: 2010 controversy long over

by JP Lonergan , 13 January 2012

Meath senior football manager Seamus McEnaney says that the controversial 2010 Leinster final between his side and Louth must be left behind.


Joe Sheridan's illegal goal decided the provincial decider that day when it was wrongly allowed, and there has been bad blood between the counties in GAA circles since.

They met again in last year’s All-Ireland qualifiers, but Meath won out easily on that occasion, and manager ‘Banty’ says – ahead of the counties’ latest date in this weekend’s O'Byrne Cup quarter-final – that the controversy has been left in the past.

"That's a long time ago now, it's a memory,” McEnaney said of the infamous Croke Park encounter in Friday’s edition of the Irish Sun.

"Surely to God it is time everybody just left that in the past. As far as we in the Meath dressing-room are concerned, that saga is over. It has been put to bed.

"The qualifier game last summer in Cavan was when it really ended. So that's it. The saga is over.

"Let's be realistic about it: this is an O'Byrne Cup game in January, the start of the season, and it is an opportunity for both managements to look at players and try out certain things.

"There will be a lot of players involved on Sunday who were not playing in that Leinster final."

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