Before he began his sophomore football season, Brian was already being compared to Frank Merriwell, Yale's mythical super-athlete. Dowling shunned the role. "I had never heard of Merriwell until I ...

My high school years," Brian Dowling recently confided to a friend ... "but I wanted to go to Yale and play football." Sue has since married, Marvin Plumb, a tractor salesman.

The opening round defeat to Down seems a long time ago now with Brian Dowling’s Kildare hurlers having recorded three wins on ...