A Cat helping Magpies soar

The conversation with Peter Dowling runs for 13 minutes and a second.

The Midleton midfielder, arms folded and perched upright in the chair, opens up to every question fired across the table. A trend however, begins to manifest itself as the interview progresses. The towering midfielder repeatedly refers to his team-mates and the club at large as ‘they’ rather than the expected ‘we’.

On the hype which has enveloped the club this week: “I suppose it has been so long since they have been in the final so there is bound to be plenty of buzz about the place.”