Kelly Mallon wins All-Ireland senior bowling title for eleventh time

ALL IRELAND CHAMPION: Kelly Mallon won a record 11th All-Ireland senior bowling title at Eglish on Sunday and performed like someone who could easily win 11 more. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom Honan

Kelly Mallon won a record 11th All-Ireland senior bowling title at Eglish on Sunday and performed like someone who could easily win 11 more.

What an extraordinary athlete, the most under-rated Irish sports person of her generation and indisputably the greatest woman bowler of all time. Munster champion, Geraldine Daly-Curtin, may have regrets that she did not push the Armagh star closer, but no woman in Ireland would have beaten the champion.