Tailteann Cup final: All you need to know

SATURDAY 15 JULY

Tailteann Cup final

Meath v Down, Croke Park, 3pm

ONLINE

Live blog on RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News app. Highlights also available across the weekend.

RADIO

Live commentary and updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport. Also live updates on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta's Spórt an Lae.

TV

Live coverage of the game as part of the The Saturday Game, on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player, from 2.30pm on Saturday.

Highlights on The Sunday Game, 9.30pm, RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player

WEATHER

After a bright start, Dublin looks set for a windy and wet afternoon on Saturday.

For a detailed forecast see Met.ie.

32 years after they met in the All-Ireland football final, Down and Meath are set to lock horns in just the second Tailteann Cup final on Saturday afternoon.

The counties have lifted Sam Maguire another three times between them since but this weekend they will be merely playing for the right to compete for the trophy in 2024.

The Mourne Men were involved in the Tailteann Cup last year, when they were heavily beaten by Cavan in Round 1, while this is the Royals' first time involved after they fell to Offaly in the Leinster quarter-finals, coupled with a sixth-place finish in Division 2 of the Allianz League.

The pair's run through this competition has been impressive, with Meath inflicting on Down the only defeat that either side has suffered, in the clash at Parnell Park last month.

O'Rourke on the hunt for Royal silverware

Meath only just avoided relegation in the spring as they picked up a point from their last five games, and that point was the difference between them and the bottom two.

For manager Colm O'Rourke, who played in that 1991 loss to Down, the Tailteann Cup has been an opportunity in his first year in charge to take a look at more