Cool Cat Dowling on right track

IT all began for Ian Dowling on a lovely spring afternoon in 2004.

Cool Cat Dowling on right track

Shannon were taking on Cork Constitution in the AIB League Final at Lansdowne Road. The Kilkennyman, 23 at the time, was a Shannon substitute and to be so close to the action at his theatre of dreams was a thrill in itself.

And then, with 15 minutes to go, he got the call to enter the fray and by day’s end Dowling had his first AIL medal and kick-started a rugby career that seemed stuck in neutral.

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