Meath skipper Donal Keogan has put his side's improvement this season down to new coach Colm Nally.

“He’s been a breath of fresh air in terms of his coaching and his training,” the ultra-consistent Meath defender said in the Irish Daily Star of the former Louth footballer, who published his own gaelic football coaching manual last year, 

“The confidence we gained from the league and winning games, we won six out of seven in the group and you do take encouragement from that. I think it’s just confidence, belief in the set up and the game plan and each other.

"I’m playing beside two lads in the half-back line and I believe in them and they believe in me and we are there to back each other up as well. The performances have reflected that belief. In another year we might have crumbled.”

Keogan is hoping the Royals can bring their new-found consistency into Sunday's Leinster final against raging hot favourites Dublin.

“We have helped ourselves in terms of being more consistent, that was one of our main pitfalls in the last couple of years, our inconsistency, and we really tried to hone in on that and bring a new level of consistency to each game,” the Rathkenny man added.

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