Paul Buckley beat Wayne Callanan in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship tie at Peake. He led over two bowls of odds, but Callanan finished strongly to force a last shot.

Raymond Ryan and Donal O’Riordan had the first two wins in the 2019 Munster intermediate championship.

Timmy Murphy will lead the Munster team in the third All-Ireland series in Boston in October following his bowl of odds win over Michéal O’Sullivan in the Junior C final at Clondrohid.

Competition for the three Munster places for the third All-Ireland series intensified in the past week.

David Murphy and Arthur McDonagh contest next Sunday’s Munster senior final at Grenagh.

James Cooney was the star of the Munster Junior A action last weekend, beating Michael Murphy by three bowls after a scintillating 10 shot salvo at Whitechurch on Sunday.

Donncha O’Brien made an explosive start to his Marshall Clarke Cup quarter-final clash with Denis Wilmot at Derrinasafa, which set him on the way to a comprehensive win.

Aidan Murphy beat Killian Kingston by a bowl in the feature score of the Mid-Cork fundraising weekend at Ballinacurra on Monday.

All-Ireland champion Thomas Mackle bowled well to beat Aidan Murphy by almost a bowl in the Willie Whelton Cup at Grange.

Brothers Edmond and Séamus Sexton advanced to the Munster senior championship semi-finals in a weekend that saw all four Munster quarter-finals decided.

Paul Buckley bowled brilliantly at Newcestown to beat Kieran Murphy by over two bowls in the Munster intermediate championship quarter-final. 

Locals who tried to save two men who died in a house fire have told of how the heat and flames beat back their efforts even as a woman jumped to safety from an upstairs window.

Edmond Sexton did record bowling at Lyre in his three bowls of odds win over Thomas Mackle in the Mother Hegarty Cup on Sunday.

Thomas Mackle is Ulster senior champion following a last shot win over his uncle, Martin Toal, at Port Mór-Blackwatertown.

The Munster senior championship will dominate bowling for the next few weeks, starting with both semi-finals at the weekend.

Martin Coppinger opened the 2015 Munster senior championship with a bowl of odds win over Séamus Sexton at Clondrohid.

Today’s Corn Uí Mhuirí Group B clash between St Brendan’s College and Coláiste na Sceilge is the second meeting of the Kerry schools in eight days.

David Murphy opened with six brilliant bowls at Bauravilla to send him on his way to an emphatic win over Martin Coppinger in the Mick Crowley Cup.

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

John Creedon won a terrific joust with Edmond Sexton in the Munster senior championship at Templemartin on Sunday.

Following an enforced 20-day break due to the inclement weather conditions, point-to-point racing returned to the Cork and Waterford region on Saturday as the rescheduled Tallow meeting (run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds) took place at Shanakill Cross outside Conna.

Cork County Council and Irish Water have issued a boil water notice to almost 80 parts of the county due to fears that the supply was contaminated during Wednesday’s storms.

The clash of Martin Coppinger and David Murphy in Sunday’s Munster senior semi-final at Ballygurteen has quickly shifted bowling fans’ attention towards next month’s second All-Ireland series in Port Mór-Blackwatertown.

PJ Cooney will contest the Munster intermediate championship final in two weeks following his semi-final win over David Hubbard at Carraig na bhFear on Friday.

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.

A support group for families affected by sudden cardiac death in the young have called for further research and investment in Ireland.

The heartbroken brother of a talented young sports star who collapsed and died while playing a football match said his younger sibling had touched a huge number of people in his short life and was his “hero”.

Family and friends of Deirdre Lynch made her funeral Mass into a heartwarming celebration of a girl described as “a wonderful, shining light”.

A 16-year-old Co Cork boy who died suddenly while playing a schools’ match has been described as a “an extraordinarily skilled sportsman” by his principal.

The death of a 16-year-old schoolboy while playing a match yesterday brings to two the number of young people who died suddenly in Cork over the past few days.