Editing Slane (section)

==Sport==
The earliest recorded inter-county match of ''[[caid (sport)|caid]]'', equivalent to modern [[Gaelic football]], in the entirety of Ireland; was one between Louth and Meath, in the fields of Slane, in 1712, about which the poet Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta wrote a poem of 88 verses beginning ''"Ba haigeanta"''.

The modern-day Slane Gaelic Football Club comprises the local parish [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] [[Gaelic football]] teams for the urban and rural areas of Slane. Teams play their home games in Toddy Harding Park, located {{convert|5|km|0}} north of the village. Slane Wanderers is the village's local football club, whose home games are played in Wheatfield Park.

In [[1979 FIM Motocross World Championship|1979]], the inaugural Irish [[Motocross World Championship|Motocross Grand Prix]] was held in Slane.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.motocross.ie/?select=3&id=651 |title=Fairyhouse To Host The Irish Motocross Grand Prix |publisher=motocross.ie |access-date=6 March 2017 }}</ref>