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Describing Meath’s Division 2 campaign as having “started very well but finished with a whimper”, Colm O'Rourke might as well have been penning a column about a team with whom he had no association.

JOB DONE: Manager Colm O’Rourke celebrates Meath’s Tailteann Cup final win last July.

Showing exactly why he was an enduring pundit, Colm O’Rourke pulled few punches in his report of his Meath senior footballers to the county board.

To claim that one of the worst first-half performances by a Meath team came under his watch in this year’s Leinster quarter-final loss to Offaly was typically forthright of O’Rourke. It “brought us to rock bottom,” he wrote.