Navan is Meath country, and Meath football is what the year is organised around here. Páirc Tailteann in the town hosts the county's home games, and a Leinster championship day involving Meath still pulls a crowd out of every parish in the area. Navan Town cover local Leinster football at club level. The town sits firmly in the Meath commuter belt, with a lot of households travelling to Dublin daily, and the National Broadband Ireland rollout is still filling in the rural gaps around it. In practice that means the experience in the town itself and the experience five miles outside it can be quite different, which is the case for testing rather than assuming.
Navan sits in the Meath commuter belt and the pattern is the familiar one for this ring around Dublin: the town itself has reasonable fibre while the surrounding countryside depends on how far the National Broadband Ireland rollout has reached. Out towards Trim, Kells and Athboy the experience varies considerably. The housing is largely family homes and newer estates, so installation is possible in principle, but a great many households here are already carrying a long commute and have limited patience for another contract. The practical test is the evening one, run at your own address on a night when the house is busy. A Meath championship weekend is the ideal moment, because that is the thing people here would actually mind missing.