Lecturer Dowling has all the answers

MARY DOWLING may have to invest in a new phone after yesterday’s dramatic success on the final day of the Lancome Irish Women’s Close Championship at Portstewart Golf Club.

The New Ross native sank a magnificent birdie putt on the 18th to defeat Slieve Russell tyro Leona Maguire and claim her first title before a massive gallery at the famed Derry venue.

And then the first of the texts started to come through.

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