Amid new road bowling wave, will King of the Roads title leave Ireland for the first time?
Din's Tough's section on the King and Queen of the roads hosted by Ballincurrig bowling club featuring players from Ireland, Germany, Netherlands and Italy this weekend. Picture; Eddie O'Hare
In April 1997, Irish bowlers got their first close-up look at Italian bowling near Pesaro on the Adriatic coast. So little was known about Italian bowling here before then. It was educational in ways not fully anticipated. The first thing that struck the Irish was the Italian way of engaging with bowling, it was so like in Ireland.
