Duhallow men in Drogheda for road bowling All-Ireland
THE All-Ireland Road Bowling Championships will be held in Drogheda this weekend, September 7 & 8, and Duhallow men Mick Moloney and Shane Collins will be in action.
Mick, from Kanturk originally, is the North America Novice 2 champion and Shane Collins of Kilcorney enters as the Munster Novice 1 champion.
There will be six regions competing: London, North America and the four Irish provinces with three different grades - Junior C, Novice 1 & Novice 2.
The Duhallow men will join Brian Coughlan ( West Cork) who is the Munster Junior C Champion and Ollie Murphy (Donoughmore) who is the Munster Novice 2 Champion.
Mick, who emigrated to the USA a number of years ago and won the North America Novice 2 Road Bowling Championship this year, plays in an All Ireland Road Bowling championship for the second time. He was runner up to Leinster Champion, Peter Clinton, in the Novice 2 grade final in 2017.
Shane, who currently plays with Dromtarriffe Intermediate footballers and assisted the club as full forward to win the County Junior A Football Championship last year, only started road bowling a few years ago and he has won the North Novice B, North Novice 1 and County Novice 1 competitions so far this year
Supporters will travel to Drogheda to support them and hope they will bring an All-Ireland title back to join Vincent Kiely’s (Kilcorney) All-Ireland Junior B trophy which he won last month. Wishing Mike and Shane all the best in Drogheda
The schedule is as follows:
Saturday, September 7: Junior C
semi-final at 12 & 12.20pm (final 1pm on Sunday) Brian Coughlan (Munster) Padraig Nugent (London) Adrian Lappin (N. America) Kevin Levelle (Connacht) Ronan McClelland (Ulster) Gary Shevlin (Leinster)
semi-final at 2pm & 2.20pm on Saturday (final at 3.30pm Sunday)
Shane Collins (Munster) Sean Sexton (London) Sean O’Mahony (N. America) Ger Kennedy (Connacht) Christopher Fields (Ulster) JP Clinton (Leinster)
Novice 1
semi-final at 10am & 10.20am on Saturday (final at 11am on Sunday)
Oliver Murphy (Munster) Danny O’Shea (London) Mick Maloney (N. America) Kevin McGuire (Connacht) Ryan Quigley (Ulster) Martin Briscoe (Leinster)
Novice 2