Top Cat Dowling feeling right at home

ENOUGH of this slagging of Ian Dowling about being a Leinster man playing for Munster!

For those of you aren’t aware, the three crowns on the Munster crest represent the ancient provincial kingdoms of Thomond, Desmond and Ormond, part of which would have reached into what we know as county Kilkenny.

Up to the ninth century, however, there was also a fourth Munster kingdom, Ossory, which included most of the current county of Kilkenny, including the city itself, but which then ‘seceded’, detached itself and became part of Leinster.