Geraghty to play again for Meath

Graham Geraghty has targeted a return to action for Meath sometime during the NFL campaign as he takes another step towards resurrecting his inter-county career. The Clann na nGael player, who will be 39 next May, made a sensational return to the inter-county scene in 2011 coming on as a late substitute in the Leinster SFC encounter against Kildare. Geraghty, in typical fashion, made an immediate impact when he came on against Kildare scoring a 'goal' which was subsequently and wrongly ruled out with the player deemed to have been in the square. It was a pivotal moment in the game which Kildare went on to win. Geraghty, who is also a selector this year, is clearly determined to extend his inter-county career for another year at least although there remains a question mark over his fitness. His much publicised comeback last summer was short-lived as he picked up a Achilles injury in training soon after the Kildare game that ruled him out for the rest of the year. "I'm on course, I'm where I probably should be and I'm happy enough the way the treatment has gone," he told the Meath Chronicle this week. "I'll see what way I am. I'll know myself, if I'm not up to it I won't continue. If I think I'm able to contribute something I will. "I would be hoping to get a couple of runs in the league, I'll see how it is then. If the ankle stands up then I suppose it will be a case of pushing on from there and assessing how it goes." Geraghty, who made his senior inter-county debut in 1991, is one of 30 players manager Seamus McEnaney has named for the forthcoming O'Byrne Cup and NFL campaigns, but accepts he's facing a battle to obtain the standard of fitness required. "At the moment I'm trying to do some training just trying to get myself back into some kind of shape. I'm not sure exactly how I am at the minute it's just the area around the ankle, that's still at me," he told the Meath Chronicle. "As far as I'm concerned the Achilles is healed up now, but it's just the repercussions from that, the scar tissue and all that. I'm trying to rebuild any damage done to other ligaments." Geraghty says the immediate plan is to give some of the younger players "a run out" in the O'Byrne Cup and the NFL and see how they perform on the big stage. Meath will play Wexford in the first round of the O'Byrne Cup at Pairc Tailteann on Sunday, 2.0. The Meath panel for the O'Byrne Cup and NFL is: David Gallagher, Justin Carry-Lynch, Seamus Kenny, Joe Sheridan, Mark Ward, Jamie Queeney, Kevin Reilly, Eoghan Harrington, Bryan Menton, Gary O'Brien, Cormac McGuinness, Shane McAnarney, Caoimhin King, Brian Meade, Eoin Reilly, Conor Gillespie, Graham Reilly, Stephen Bray, Cian Ward, Tom Walsh, Donal Keoghan, Mark Collins, Mickey Burke, Alan Forde, Shane O'Rourke, Paddy Gilsenan, Graham Geraghty, Donncha Tobin, Ciaran Lenehan, Chris O'Connor.