Meath resurgence gathers pace as Roscommon's winning run ends in Navan

A powerful, albeit wind assisted, second-half performance from Meath helped secure a significant win for the hosts in Navan, leaving Robbie Brennan's Royals very much in the Division 2 promotion picture.

Roscommon arrived as favourites with a perfect record and led by four points at half-time but, crucially, had already used their wind advantage.

And Meath capitalised with their best second-half performance in recent seasons, grabbing goals from Sean Coffey and Ronan Jones and outscoring Roscommon in that 35-minute period by 2-10 to 0-5

Ciaran Caulfield, who recently captained DCU to the Sigerson Cup title, was terrific for Meath, grabbing a second-half point while Dunshaughlin's Conor Duke came of age too, scoring 0-05 and swinging over two two-pointers.

Eoghan Frayne top scored for the hosts with six points and also struck a two-pointer while Jack Flynn and Bryan Menton, both back in action this season, provided a sturdy midfield platform again.

The result has left Meath, Roscommon and Monagan all locked on six points at the head of Division 2, setting up an intriguing final few games with Meath set to travel to basement dwellers Westmeath next weekend.

Davy Burke and Roscommon will hope to get back to winning ways when they take on Cork in Round 5.

They'd already taken care of Down, Louth and Monaghan before travelling to Navan and stuck largely by tried and trusted, the return of 2023 All-Star Enda Smith the only change to their lineup.

Meath, fresh off morale boosting wins over Cavan and Down, did likewise and made just a solitary change, returning Adam O'Neill to defence in place of the unavailable Eoin Harkin.

High winds whipped through Navan all morning and the talk beforehand was that whichever side had the breeze