Northern Ireland went into the final day of competition knowing they had one medal in the bag with the men’s Fours and a potential second with Gary Kelly involved in the last 4 of the men’s singles. First up was the men’s singles, with Gary taking on Malaysia. After a slow start, Gary took control […]
What a day the eighth day of competition turned out to be for Northern Ireland at the Lawn Bowls in the Commonwealth Games. Three Disciplines remained hopeful of medals going into the penultimate day of competition. Firstly the Women’s Pair of Megan Devlin and Shauna O’Neill faced a very experienced pair from Malaysia. This was […]
Day 7 saw a return to a mixed bag of results. Only 2 of the disciplines were in action – men’s singles and ladies’ triples. Gary Kelly completed the group games in the singles against Nuie and Canada. After a slow start against a young opponent from Nuie, Kelly turned on the style coming from […]
After a day of mixed fortunes on day 5 it was hoped that things would improve on day 6. Up first was Gary Kelly for his 2nd game in the singles discipline. He faced a formidable opponent in Daniel Salmon of Wales who had just secured Gold in the pairs. Kelly controlled the game from […]
It was a day of very mixed results for the Northern Ireland team on Day 5 of the Commonwealth Games in Leamington Spa. The day started early with Sam Barkley and Marty McHugh contesting the bronze medal match against the top Scottish pair of Paul Foster and Alex Marshall. Sadly it was not to be […]
Commonwealth Games Update – Day 4 Day 4 saw the semi-finals of the ladies singles and men’s pairs and Northern Ireland’s focus was in the Men’s Pairs where we were represented by Sam Barkley and Marty McHugh who were taking on Daniel Salmon and Jarryd Breen from Wales. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be as they […]
