Kings, Relics and Winter
The year’s most important sequence unfolded in Connacht. Its established overking, Ruaidrí na Saide Buide Ua Conchobair, had been blinded and deposed in 1092 by Ua Flaithbertaig interests in western Connacht. His fall fractured the authority of Síl Muiredaig, the dominant branch of the Uí Briúin Aí, and offered Muirchertach an opportunity to determine who would rule the province.