Kevin recently featured on a David McWilliams documentary about vulture funds and NAmA. He works for one of those vulture funds crowds and came across as a proper cunt. A real chinless wonder. Hasnāt changed much since the all blacks trampled all over him.
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This chap with the lisp and English type accent?
Heās an ex-Irish rugby footballer?
Kevin Nowlan
KEVIN Nowlan was a rampaging full back for St Maryās and Leinster in the late Nineties, playing in the Heineken Cup and ultimately winning three caps for Ireland. He made his debut against the All Blacks in a 63-15 defeat, following up with a two-try display against Canada. His final match came in an embarrassing defeat by Italy in Bologna. Off the pitch, he worked with Anglo Irish Bank before switching to Johnny Ronan and Richard Barrettās Treasury Holdings. After Treasury Holdings, the property executive worked as managing director of his family property advisory firm WK Nowlan until 2010 when he joined Nama. The chartered surveyor transferred his 30 per cent shareholding in WK Nowlan into a trust before moving to Nama. WK Nowlan worked as one of Namaās key consultants. During his time at Nama, Nowlan became one of the key players within the State agency, serving as busted tycoon Sean Dunneās portfolio manager in Nama. Last February, Nowlan upped sticks and returned to WK Nowlan. More recently, he raised ā¬365m on the stock market through Hibernian REIT ā a fund set up to buy property.
Ca4rick-on-Shannon are the only one. Roscommon forwards and Leitrim backs to finesse the operation.
Heās made a fortune over last decade. His old man had the original business and was the brains of the operation id say. His father managed property assets for some of biggest pension funds around and he sold out of most/all of their big exposures before the crash. A good fold to put it lightly
Father is a gent I never met kevin.
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Wexford has a wonderful tradition of producing Ireland rugby internationals - Seamus Kelly, Bill Tector, Tony Ensor, Nick Popplewell, Neville Furlong, Gordon DāArcy and Tadhg Furlong. Thereās probably a load more that I havenāt mentioned as well.
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Anthony Foley (right) pictured recently at a celebration for Mick Galweyās 50th birthday alongside former team-mates (l-r) John Hayes, Frankie Sheahan, Eddie Halvey and Stephen Keogh. The picture was posted by Sheahan on Twitter yesterday with the message āDistraught at the tragic news of Anthony Foley,great friend,teammate & legend.Super form last weekend at Mick Galweyās 50th. Incomprehensibleā
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The Seamus Kelly Roundabout is a relatively new addition to Wexford town. Have you driven around it yet yourself?
I havenāt been in Wexford town in a while, but coincidentally I will be there on Friday morning. Where exactly is it? Iāll have to take a spin around it.
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Itās near Wexford Wanderers Rugby Football Club and the adjoining Pairc Charman GAA Grounds. Thereās a new road at the back of the hospital which takes you past said roundabout then up along the boundary of Pairc Charman at the back and side of the Faythe Harriers pitch. Ultimately another bridge across the Slaney over to Crosstown and Shelmaliers GAA club territory is planned.
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It was inevitable that the club game would get into trouble. Once professionalism hit we had new generations of mostly schoolboys (and not club players themselves) coming out of that production line needing a club. Before they went somewhere for loyalty; where they played mini rugby, their university team or their old boys club. Suddenly there was a way to make a living from it and inevitably the players loyalties started to shift to where they could go to give themselves the best chance of getting to the top. The first big examples of this was the university clubs in the 90s using scholarships to bring in players, who before probably would just have attended and played elsewhere.
That is a hard transition for clubs to be fair and it was always going to be difficult. They lost the run of themselves soon though. It was really around 2002-2007 where the money just got stupid at clubs. You had some Dublin clubs paying players to be on their Under 20s B team, I shit you not. The warehousing of good schoolboy players became common by the clubs with cash from alikadoos or land deals. This impacted not only on the small clubs losing out, but also the big ones. For the guy who goes down to just play social under 20s rugby they arenāt interested in playing with some bought in talent who trains like a professional. The club game destroyed itself by chasing some star names to boost their chances of winning the McCorry Cup. Thereās a generation of 20 something and early 30s people who have no loyalty to the club game.
Thereās other problems of course- men in their 20s becoming self obsessed creatures who would rather lift than go to team sports training is a factor.
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The great Ned van Esbeck wrote a terrific article at the dawn of professionalism prophesying the decline of the club game. He was off on some of his guesses but was spot on about clubs, Iāll have to dig it up.
There is an interesting point right there. One for another thread perhaps but visible in Limerick GAA, soccer & rugby clubs with an earlier fall-off in competitive players and a shortage of players aged 22-30 compared to 10 & 20 years back.
The day that Kev earned his last cap in the ignominious defeat to Italy in Bologna was also the day that nightclub bouncer, Dylan āDealerā OāGrady earned his lone cap. After life as an Ireland international, Kev seemingly became a filthy rich property mogul. Dylan was subsequently convicted of conspiring to supply narcotics, to go alongside earlier convictions for grevious bodily harm and theft.
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element of shift to indivual sports and vanity fitness alright but more likely the economic situationā¦rugby clubs at least in dublin are flooded with country emigrants
Dylan was 2nd gen as well wasnāt he? Rough looking punter
Work colleague (donāt really know them) offered me tickets to Saturdayās game - I smiled at them like you would when a child asks a really innocent but stupid question - No thanks.
The faux grief (not by all of course ) on show will be fairly sickening to see - youāll have lads like @Fagan_ODowd who havenāt been at a game in years coming out of the woodwork to tie a scarf onto the gates of TP. In fairness, there will be a lot of genuine Shannon/rugby persons at it too, shame they have to put up with the grief bandwagoners.
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I normally only go to the internationals and the schools games (because thatās where the best rugby is played). But I might make an exception for this as I think there might be a danger that Waterford will be underrepresented at this event.
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That will be both yourself and Murray Kinsella so more than expected Iād say!!!
I wasnāt aware that his old man was from St Maryās park until today