Martin Coppinger beat Aidan Murphy in the last shot of a brilliant three-way Munster championship play-off at Skibbereen on Sunday — with James O’Donovan third.

The Munster senior championship quarter-final draws and next Sunday’s Pool A play-off at Skibbereen between Aidan Murphy, Martin Coppinger and James O’Donovan are dominating bowling discourse this week.

DAVID HUBBARD secured a place in the Cork semi-final of the Jim O’Driscoll Cup when he beat Wayne Callanan in the last shot at Ballincurrig.

CONOR MCGUIGAN pulled off the biggest bowling shock since Danny McParland beat Mick Barry in the 1963 All-Ireland final, when he beat David Murphy by almost three bowls of odds in the All-Ireland senior final at Tassagh, Co. Armagh yesterday.

DAVID MURPHY will be hot favourite when he faces Ulster champion Conor McGuigan in Sunday’s All-Ireland senior bowling final on the Markethill Road in Tassagh, Co Armagh.

BOWLING is a sport rarely accused of snobbery, but David Murphy may generate a coterie of purists if he continues to bowl at the level he displayed in Sunday’s King of the Roads final.

WAYNE KINGSTON and Tadhg Crowley will contest next Saturday’s Munster Junior C final at Killumney following impressive semi-final wins.

WILLIE O’DONOVAN advanced to the semi- final of the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig on Saturday by virtue of a last-shot win over Eamon Bowen Snr.