Keaney ready to put best foot forward

TOMORROW, Conal Keaney will take to the pitch against Westmeath as Dublin’s key forward but it was against the same opposition two years ago when the former hurler suffered one of his worst lows after swapping the hurley for the boot.

It was in 2004 that the Ballyboden St Enda’s man finally decided that his dual county commitments would have to cease and that hurling would be the one to fall by the wayside.

Though an undoubted talent with a football, it was generally accepted that his true calling was with the stick and the wisdom of his decision to throw in his lot with Tommy Lyons’ squad was called into question when Westmeath dumped them from the Leinster championship that year.