Denis Wilmot had the first big championship win of 2014 when he beat Brendan O’Neill in the last shot at Newcestown in the Mid-Cork Junior A championship on Sunday.

Martin Coppinger will be a very strong favourite to win his second All-Ireland senior title when he faces off against defending champion Conor McGuigan at Derrinasafa, Dunmanway on Sunday.

Aidan Murphy completed the lineup for the Munster senior championship semi-finals when he beat Gary Daly by close to two bowls of odds in torrential rain at Carrigaline on Saturday.

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.

ARTHUR McDONAGH will be a strong contender for next month’s All-Ireland Junior A title following an impressive two bowls-of-odds win over Michael Gould in the Munster final at Kilcorney.

DONAL RIORDAN turned the Munster Intermediate semi-final on its head with two astonishing bowls against Michael Bohane at Grange.

GARY DALY had two important wins in three days when he beat Christy Mullins in the feature score of the West and Mid Festival at Ballinacurra on Sunday, hot on the heels of his last-shot win over Eamon Bowen Snr in the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig on Thursday.

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.

KILLIAN KINGSTON finished strongly to beat Vincent Kiely by well over a bowl in the semi-final of the Murphy’s Stout Munster Junior A championship at Whitechurch.

A NEW generation is in the ascendancy in Ulster following Eddie Carr's win over Michael Toal in last Sunday's senior semi-final at the Cathedral Road.