BREAKING: Shane Dowling to make sensational return for Limerick hurlers
The former ace forward last played for Limerick in the 2019 All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny
Shane Dowling is making a dramatic return to the Limerick hurling team, more than four years after being forced into retirement.
Dowling, an All Star forward in 2014 and a crucial impact player as Limerick won their first All-Ireland in 45 years in 2018, called time on his career due to chronic knee problems in 2020, with the ailments not even allowing him to play a meaningful role for his club Na Piarsaigh as an outfield player.
However, he was reinvented as a goalkeeper for the club in recent seasons, winning a county title last year and also proving a valuable asset from frees and penalties.
But with Limerick’s long-serving netminder Nickie Quaid ruled out for the bulk, if not all, of the 2025 inter-county season with a cruciate ligament injury, Treaty boss John Kiely has invited Dowling to rejoin the squad.
Following Barry Hennessy’s retirement as Quaid’s understudy in 2022, Jason Gillane, brother of star forward Aaron has emerged as the second choice goalkeeper and 31-year-old Dowling will joust with him and Conor Hanley Clarke for the No 1 jersey for the 2025 campaign.
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