Champions Meath braced for All-Ireland quarter-final trip to Kerry

Meath manager Jenny Rispin said the TG4 All-Ireland champions are under no illusion about the scale of the task facing them when they head to Kerry for a quarter-final showdown against the side they defeated in last year's final.

The two-in-a-row champions are on the road for their last-eight tie after going down at the weekend to Donegal in Navan.

"A trip down to Kerry is never easy," said Rispin. "We’re starting anew now and we’ll be looking for a bit of a kickback after that game today.

"Kerry and ourselves are getting to know each other well now at this stage. There’s not much between the teams. They’re getting to know each other too well at times!

"Kerry had a good win against us in the league. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to that. We need to look at ourselves now and how we can improve all aspects of our game."

The clash in Kerry on the weekend of 15/16 July will be a repeat of last year’s All-Ireland final which Meath won by 3-10 to 1-07.

Elsewhere, Galway will host Mayo in a repeat of the Connacht final while the only two teams in the last eight who have never won the All-Ireland title, Armagh and Donegal, will both enjoy home advantage in the quarter-finals.

Donegal will face five-time champions Dublin, while Armagh will take on a Cork side who booked their place in the last eight with an impressive 8-12 to 2-03 win over Tipperary.

Meath and Donegal served up a tight affair in Navan with late points from Susanne White and Karen Guthrie securing an invaluable 1-10 to 0-12 win for the Ulster side. The only goal of the game came from Niamh Hegarty after eight minutes which helped them lead by 1-06 to 0-06 at the break and they did enough in the end to set up a quarter-final showdown with Dublin.

This is the third year