Meath players set for Inter-Provincial action

Four Meath footballers and one hurler will be action for Leinster in this weekends Inter-Provincial Championships. Leinster manager Val Andrews has included Mark Ward, Peadar Byrne, Joe Sheridan and Caoimhin King in his panel for Saturday"s Inter-Provincial football semi-final against Connacht in Kiltoom. Drumree's David Crimmins will join a host of star names on the Leinster hurling panel for their semi-final against Connacht, also at Kiltoom. The Leinster hurling panel - E Coady (Carlow), R Fallon (Dublin), PJ Ryan, J Dalton, E Brennan, M Rice, R Power, A Fogarty, W O"Dwyer, T Walsh (all Kilkenny); B Campion, T Fitzgerald (both Laois); D Crimmins (Meath); D Franks, D Horan, R Hanniffy, B Carroll, J Bergin (all Offaly); B Murtagh (Westmeath); C Farrell (Wexford). The Leinster football panel is - Mark Carpenter (Carlow); Shane Ryan, Colin Moran, Paul Flynn, Philip McMahon and Tomas Quinn (all Dublin); Kevin O"Neill, Andrew McLoughlin, Emmet Bolton and John Doyle (all Kildare); Mark Ward, Peadar Byrne, Joe Sheridan and Caoimhin King (all Meath); Mark Timmons, Ross Munnelly and Brendan Quigley (all Laois); Gary Connaughton, Michael Ennis and John Smyth (all Westmeath); Anthony Masterson, PJ Banville and Eric Bradley (all Wexford); JP Dalton and Dara O hAnnaidh (both Wicklow).