{"id":110847,"date":"2025-10-29T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:25:14","slug":"ive-no-business-going-back-there-im-not-the-future-goalkeeper-shane-dowling-on-walking-away-from-treaty-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110847\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve no business going back there, I\u2019m not the future goalkeeper\u2019 &#8211; Shane Dowling on walking away from Treaty fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shane Dowling will not be returning to the Limerick fold next season. Picture: Seb Daly \/ SPORTSFILE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3041815.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)\">Shane Dowling will not be returning to the Limerick fold next season. Picture: Seb Daly \/ 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)\">Shane Dowling insists that he had &#8220;no business&#8221; remaining involved with the Limerick senior hurling squad for 2026.<\/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 Limerick attacker was forced to hang up his county boots in 2020 due to a crippling knee injury before making a sensational return to John Kiely&#8217;s squad last winter, this time as goalkeeper after impressing with his club Na Piarsaigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Dowling will not be returning to the Limerick fold next season. Picture: Seb Daly \/ SPORTSFILE Shane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,23501,112],"class_list":["post-110847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-verney","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}