18/06/2026
From the Southern Star newspaper,
MOTHER AND SON BOW OUT OF CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Tom McCarthy from Skibbereen bowed out of the U-18 county championship when he was beat by Willie Stokes of the city region at Terelton, playing for a stake of €1,500 a-side. Stokes raised an early bowl of odds after two huge opening shots. McCarthy got a great fourth shot past the layby that knocked the bowl of odds. Stokes replied with another big bowl past the well gate where he had fifty meters of odds. McCarthy unleashed a fantastic seventh shot past O’Sullivan’s cottage and Stokes caught the right d**e and gave McCarthy his first lead, but this lead was short-lived as Stokes got a super bowl just to the garage yard, McCarthy missed this in two and fell a bowl down again, McCarthy lined a big ninth but Stokes was covering all tips. McCarthy had it under the bowl again at Lehane’s lane, but a short thirteenth in right and with a poor fourteenth also he was now almost two bowls down. At Buckley’s lane Stokes raised the two bowls and now meets the winner of Culann Bourke or Rory Twohig in the semi-final.
Eileen McCarthy mother of Tom also lost her junior ladies preliminary road to Aisling O’Callaghan representing the East/Waterford region when they played at Castletown. O’Callaghan led from start to finish in this one, O’Callaghan was at the first cross in three bowls where she had a bowl of odds. McCarthy done well to keep it to a bowl in two more to Peg’s Hole and down to the Creamery cross in nine and ten shots where it was an even bowl of odds. Some long bowls were played down the straight, McCarthy had a chance when O’Callaghan got a poor fourteenth back of the Hollies, but recovered her full bowl of odds again with a massive fifteenth, after two more to Ballineen cross O’Callaghan won by the bowl of odds.