Road named after bowling legend

ROAD BOWLING legend Mick Barry said he was “taking it all in his stride” yesterday as his native city named a road after him and hosted a City Hall reception in his honour.

“Sure, isn’t it grand?” the self-effacing and fit-as-a-fiddle 91-year-old said, clasping a 28-ounce road bowl in his right hand, as he stood proud on the newly named Mick Barry Road which links the Kinsale Road to the South Link Road in Cork.

The area was a popular road bowling location from the 1940s onwards.