Gavin Twohig beat Dónal Riordan in the feature score of the Carbery-South West festival at the Pike.

Thomas Mackle beat David Murphy by almost a bowl in the Joe McVeigh Cup final at the Ból-Fada festival in Keady, Co Armagh yesterday.

Aidan Desmond was an impressive winner over Seán Twomey in the Munster Junior C semi-final at Templemichael on Sunday.

Michael Bohane will play Raymond Ryan in next Sunday’s Munster Intermediate final at Lyre.

James O’Donovan finished with five brilliant bowls at Templemartin to dethrone All-Ireland senior champion Aidan Murphy in the Munster quarter-final on Sunday.

Billy McAuliffe and Paul Buckley will contest a classic Munster Junior A final at Templemichael on Friday week, June 26.

Gary Daly and Séamus Sexton secured places in the Munster senior championship quarter-final draw at the weekend and Éamon Bowen Jnr revived his hopes with a brilliant show against James Buckley, writes Séamus Ó Tuama.

Martin Coppinger is back on track to regain the Munster senior title after securing the top spot in Pool D with an emphatic win over Christy Mullins on the Creamery Road in Bantry.

Nicholas Carey gave a record breaking performance at Clashmore where he beat Willie O’Donovan by almost three bowls of odds in the Munster Intermediate championship.

Seamus Sexton beat Pat Butler by a bowl in a brilliant Munster intermediate championship quarter-final at Timoleague.

Bowling fans throughout the country are mourning the loss of Willie Carroll, the doyen of Connacht bowling, who died at the weekend.

Martin Coppinger had a comfortable two bowls of odds win over James Buckley at Waterfall in the final pool score of the Munster senior championship on Sunday.

Aidan Murphy is Joe McVeigh Cup champion following his bowl of odds win over Ulster champion Eddie Carr on the Markethill Road in Keady yesterday.

David Murphy has his Munster senior championship campaign back on track after a last-shot win over John Creedon at Kealkill.

Aidan Murphy beat Ulster’s Thomas Mackle in the last shot of the Mother Hegarty Cup final at Lyre on Sunday.

David Murphy continued his march to the Munster senior championship quarter-final with a bowl-of-odds win over Nicholas Carey at Templemichael on Sunday.

Aidan Murphy beat Brian Wilmot in the last shot at Newcestown to stay toe-to-toe with Martin Coppinger in Pool B of the Munster senior championship.

Martin Coppinger was handed a difficult route to defend his Munster and All-Ireland senior titles at last Wednesday’s Munster championship draws.

CHRISTY Mullins and James Buckley got valuable wins in the Munster Senior Championship at the weekend. Mullins beat Bill Daly in the last throw at Shannonvale and Buckley edged Nicholas Carey at Carraig na bhFear.

JAMES O’DONOVAN led from the start in his bowl of odds win over Eamon Bowen Snr in the Munster senior championship at Carrigaline on Sunday.

JOHN CREEDON bowled well to beat Aidan Murphy and Eamon Bowen Jnr in the Kealkill Cup final on Sunday.

All the major fixtures in last weekend’s bowling programme were abandoned because of the continuing severe weather. The massive calendar of events planned for the Christmas period could also fall by the way unless a quick and sustained thaw sets in.

JOHN CREEDON topped Pool B of the Murphy’s Stout Munster Senior championship when he finished with two great bowls to beat Kieran Gould and John O’Driscoll at Castletownkenneigh on Saturday.

Peadar Toal has won the Junior B men's title at the All-Ireland Road Bowls Finals in Co Armagh today.