Hurling
Meath hurlers have twice held half-time leads over traditional hurling counties in Leinster Senior Hurling Championship quarter-finals: over Dublin by 2-2 to 1-1 in 1936 and Kilkenny by 2-6 to 1-6 in 1949. In 1951 they held Wexford to a draw in the quarter-final but lost the replay and Wexford went on to win the Leinster championship and join the elite. Having beaten Offaly to qualify for their ninth and last Leinster semi-final in 1954, Meath regressed until they won the 1985 Kehoe Cup and the 1993 Senior B title.
After they re-entered the senior championship in 1994, their exploits included victories over Offaly All-Ireland Senior Hurling champions at the time by 1-12 to 1-11 in a February 1995 National Hurling League match in Athboy and Wexford by 1-16 to 0-16 a fortnight later in Enniscorthy.
Meath's hurlers currently play in the second-tier Christy Ring Cup. They had been playing in the Christy Ring Cup since the start of that competition but a bad 2008 cup run combined with a restructuring of hurling completions saw them relegated to the third-tier Nicky Rackard Cup for the first time.
On 11 July 2009, Meath won the final of the Nicky Rackard Cup at Croke Park, beating London 2-18 to 1-15, thus promoting them back to the Christy Ring Cup for 2010.
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