Mackle nets €70k after turning tables on Murphy

Thomas Mackle picked up €70,000 when he defeated David Murphy by two bowls of odds in the feature score of the Team Emily Benefit at Port Mór-Blackwatertown, Armagh on Saturday.

It emphatically reversed his defeat to Murphy at the same venue in the All-Ireland senior final of 2015. He won the first tip by 40m. Murphy got a poor second and Mackle consolidated his lead. Murphy drove his third to the right. Mackle played his third for Bagnell’s bridge, but it veered left just short of the bridge.