Dowling: 'It was great to have the camogie. It was something that we could cling on to'

CHALLENGE: Kilkenny manager Brian Dowling. ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

While all the focus has been on one Kilkenny manager this week, another is preparing for a mammoth challenge.

Brian Dowling hurled for the Cats under Brian Cody, winning two All-Irelands at senior level (as well as his pair of U21s) and a League medallion. And he literally did win the latter in 2002, on the day all Cork’s starting 15 bar one and none of Kilkenny’s bar one made their ‘shirts out, socks down’ protest during the parade.