[1] He progressed through the various age grades and was part of the school's senior team that beat Midleton CBS to win the Dr O'Callaghan Cup title in 2014.
[11][12] Meade had just turned 18 and was still in secondary school when he was approached to join the Cork senior hurling team in January 2015.
[13] Later that year he was added to Cork's intermediate team and won a Munster IHC medal following a 0–20 to 0–18 defeat of Limerick in the final.
He became a regular member of the starting fifteen during Cork's 2017 National League campaign and made his Munster SHC debut in May 2017 in a 2–27 to 1–26 quarter-final defeat of Tipperary.
[17] Meade collected a second consecutive provincial winners' medal in July 2018 after scoring 1–01 from play in a 2–24 to 3–19 defeat of Clare in the 2018 Munster final.