Ramie Dowling

Ramie Dowling, who lived from 1921 to 2004, was an Irish sportsperson who played hurling at various times with his local clubs Éire Óg, Mullinavat, Mount Sion and Mooncoin and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1940s and the 1950s. He played at midfield on the Kilkenny minor team of 1939 that lost the All-Ireland final to Cork and later as a half-forward with the county junior side. His lone major success at senior level was the Oireachtas win of 1947, and he also figured on the Leinster championship winning sides of 1950 and 1953, when Kilkenny reached the 1950 All-Ireland final and lost to Tipperary, his only appearance in Croke Park on All-Ireland day. At club level he won four senior championships with Éire Óg in 1939, 1944, 1945 and 1947, and he bred the 1988 Irish Derby winner Make History.