By:
Conor Martin
Jordan Morris has had an outstanding breakthrough season for Meath. Even more impressive is that he’s played most of the season with one of the most serious injuries a player can get.
Earlier this year in the league, the star Meath forward fractured a tibia and suffered grade 2 anterior cruciate and posterior cruciate ligament tears in their Division 2 game against Louth.
Jordan Morris thought inter-county season with Meath was over
Nine times out of ten, that kind of injury ends a player’s season. Still, Morris has remarkably coped well with the devastating injury despite initially believing his 2025 season was done and dusted.
“The overriding feeling straight after the Louth game was that my year was done,” he said. “It took maybe a week and a half to get a full grasp of what happened. There would have been rehabbing three times a day, there would have been injections to get back on the pitch.”
“I was given eight weeks to get back on the pitch and I think I managed to get that back to six, just driving it on. I’m taking a bit of a risk, but with the year we were having, I couldn’t miss out on it.”
Morris risking it all for his county
Meath played their first All-Ireland semi-final since 2009, when they took on Donegal at Croke Park this Sunday.
June’s footballer of the month will be crucial if the Royal County are going to reach their first All-Ireland final since 2001.
Since Morris’ return from injury, he has scored 2-12 for his county. He was instrumental in Meath upsetting 2022 & 2024’s beaten All-Ireland finalists, Galway, in the quarter-finals.
In that Galway clash, he scored 1-6 and was named Man of the Match.
Donegal must find a way to stop him from being so prolific this weekend. Knowing Morris isn’t fully fit could work to the Ulster champions’ advantage.
Morris saw renowned knee surgeon Dr Ray Moran, who confirmed to the Meath star that the ligaments were sturdy enough to avoid surgery. The Meath man explained the level of risk he is putting himself at every time he takes to the pitch: “Basically, I was told there’s maybe a 40% chance players who go back with a grade 2 tear can fully rupture it,” said the GAA/GPA footballer of the month for June. “So that’s the risk I’m playing with at the minute. It’s probably a big enough risk.
“But as I said, there’s a 60% chance I won’t do it. It is in the back of your mind at times. You just have to manage it as much as you can. I’m playing with a risk and I’m loving it at the minute, so it’s great.”
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