Former UCC sports director puts home on market

NOT one for hanging around, is Kieran Dowd.

Nor, for that matter, is his wife Una, a professional painter who returned to college after rearing a family of six. With the brood all but reared and fled the nest the couple are selling up from their convenient, western suburban Cork home and making a move westwards to Macroom, to a house with more grounds on which to occupy their ‘retirement’ years.

Anyone who attended UCC in the past several decades will be familiar with Kieran Dowd. Although a quietly spoken Belfast man, he has put the skids under hundreds of high-profile sports people, thanks to his role as Director of Physical Education and Sport. He still is the first chair of the Colleges and Universities Sports Association in Ireland (CUSAI,) overseeing sport in third-level ITs and colleges.