Meath set sights on a brighter future

NIGEL CRAWFORD puts his roast beef bap down, takes off his overcoat and stretches his long legs under, in and around the tiny table in Searson’s pub on Dublin’s Baggot Street.

He chats as he eats. He has to. You could quickly lose an afternoon dissecting the twists and turns of Meath’s fortunes in his six years on the team.

Crawford has less than an hour before the offices of Matheson Ormsby Prentice, just off Baggot Street, claim his undivided attention for the rest of the afternoon.