Magical Thomas Mackle claims All-Ireland double

Thomas Mackle won his first All-Ireland senior bowling final with a solid performance against Killian Kingston at Lyre yesterday.

It completed a great double for the Armagh family as his sister Siobhán won the women’s intermediate final. Munster won four titles, and Ulster three. Munster’s David Shannon gave the most polished performance of the weekend in Saturday’s Junior B final.

In the senior final Mackle led all the way after a great opening bowl towards Harte’s. He reached the creamery with his second and when Kingston’s third hit a pot hole it left a bowl between them. Mackle pushed it close to two bowls with a super third to the school cross.