{"id":483721,"date":"2026-05-14T04:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483721\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:34:13","slug":"strange-scenario-sees-prodigal-son-brian-dowling-trying-to-take-down-his-native-kilkenny-with-kildare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483721\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strange\u2019 scenario sees prodigal son Brian Dowling trying to take down his native Kilkenny with Kildare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Dowling playing for Kilkenny in 2002. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d14b0312-c633-44b4-bf26-539f7f9cca6a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brian Dowling playing for Kilkenny in 2002. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brian Dowling never envisaged wearing anything other than black and amber to a county match in Nowlan Park, but his journey as Kildare hurling manager has already thrown up all kinds of unlikely eventualities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The former Kilkenny forward, a two-time All-Ireland SHC winner (2002-\u201903), honed his hurling craft just a stone\u2019s throw across the road in O\u2019Loughlin Gaels and he is a Cat to his core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Dowling playing for Kilkenny in 2002. Photo: Sportsfile Brian Dowling never envisaged wearing anything other than black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[121688,18,19,17,35463,885,886,132],"class_list":["post-483721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-ireland-senior-hurling-championship","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kildare-gaa","tag-kilkenny-gaa","tag-michael-verney","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116571070849088439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}