Westmeath have a kick in them, Con’s injury troubles, Down’s big four and one in the hand over two in the bush?

THE 2015 John Heslin and Kieran Martin show stripped Meath’s mystique away for Westmeath. It just killed the conversation about a ‘first ever’ stone dead. They played on Sunday like a county that had shed every ounce of baggage and fear of the green geansaí.