Minor and under-21

Meade first played for Cork as a member of the minor team. He scored 2-04 in his debut against Kerry in the Munster quarter-final on 9 April 2014.^[4] Cork subsequently exited the championship following a defeat by Limerick.^[5] Meade subsequently played for three unsuccessful seasons with the Cork under-21 team.

Senior

Meade had just turned eighteen and was still in secondary school when he was approached to join the Cork senior team in January 2015. He was selected at left corner-forward in a challenge game against Limerick and scored a hat-trick of goals in a 6-13 to 2-18 victory.^[6] Later that year he was added to the Cork intermediate panel and won a Munster medal following a 0-20 to 0-18 defeat of Limerick in the final.^[7] After starting on the bench for the subsequent All-Ireland final against Galway, Meade was introduced as a second-half substitute, however, Cork were defeated by 0-23 to 0-14.^[8]

After making several appearances during the 2016 Munster League, Meade was a member of the extended training panel for the subsequent National League and Championship campaigns. He became a regular member of the starting fifteen during Cork's 2017 National League fixtures and made his championship debut on 21 May 2017 in a 2-27 to 1-26 Munster quarter-final defeat of Tipperary.^[9] On 9 July 2017, Meade won his first Munster medal following a 1-25 to 1-20 defeat of Clare in the final.^[10]

On 1 July 2018, Meade scored 1-01 from play on his way to a second successive Munster title following a 2-24 to 3-19 defeat of Clare in the final.^[11]