Road Bowling: Murphy dazzles en route to Munster senior title

DAZZLING DISPLAY: David Murphy, winner of the Munster Men's Senior road bowling final against Martin Coppinger at Ballincurrig, Co. Cork. 

David Murphy is Munster senior road bowling champion after a dazzling exhibition of bowling against Martin Coppinger at a tightly packed Ballincurrig road on Sunday.

This, his fifth Munster senior title, his first since 2018, may rank as his sweetest. Either Murphy or Coppinger contested ten of the 11 Munster finals between 2008 and 2019, yet they never faced each other. The novelty of these two worlds finally colliding fuelled interest and pulled bowling fans from the four provinces to fill a massive stake of €84,800.