Meath player/selector Graham Geraghty expects Sunday's Leinster final against Dublin to go to the wire.

Geraghty was part of the last Meath team to beat Dublin in a provincial final 11 years ago, and is hoping for a similar outcome this weekend.

"If we're to win this one, on Sunday, we'd have to be in the game with 10 minutes to go," he is quoted as saying in The Irish Times.

"After that, with a bit of luck, you wouldn't know what would happen, but I don't think it's going to be a game like 1995, say, 10 points in it (in Dublin's favour). Well, I hope not, anyway. But I think our lads are really up for it. It should be a close enough game."

The 1999 All-Ireland winning captain sees benefits to being not able to play due to an Achilles tendon injury which has sidelined him since the Royals' ill-fated Allianz League campaign.

"I would love to be out there, and that's the worst thing, being half right, but just not able to participate. But in some ways it has helped me focus more on being a selector. When you'd be taking part in training a small bit, you'd always be putting your selector cap on, looking at players instead of concentrating on your own game," he added. Tweet

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