After watching his side bump Meath into Division Three in 2012, Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick declared that it “buried the Leinster final of 2010”.
Fitzpatrick, now the Louth chairman, was no doubt being sincere when making the statement in the immediate aftermath of a seismic win but, ultimately, the words didn’t carry as much truth as he wanted them to.
However, inflicting a nine-point defeat on Meath in Navan, their first win over them in League or Championship since 1989, to avoid relegation and send their greatest rivals tumbling out of Division Two, helped to offset some of the pain from the debacle of 21 months earlier, along with a bad beating in the 2011 qualifiers.
