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The 2020 WVIRBA schedule has come to an end. We are working together with our event organizers to organize the upcoming 2021 season. See you on the road soon!
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March 23, 2019
Brittini Ray
Savannah Now
March 23, 2019 - Brittini Ray Savannah Now
Savannah Now March 23rd, 2019 Brittini Ray Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day festival may be over. but there was no shortage of celebration of Irish heritage on Saturday with the 2019 Irish Road Bowling tournament. Held at the International Racetrack on Hutchinson Island, teams of local bowlers gather to celebrate the sport in an event […]
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March 4, 2019
Haley Kosik
WOWK TV
March 4, 2019 - Haley Kosik WOWK TV
WOWK TV March 4th, 2019. Haley Kosik CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Families in the Capitol City got the chance to launch a 28-ounce steel ball down Piedmont Road. This is a sport and it’s called Irish road bowling.The sport was first established in West Virginia in 1995 in a small town called Ireland, WV. Since […]
Read More 2018 North American Regional Finals
June 8, 2018
Heather Clower
Parsons Advocate
June 8, 2018 - Heather Clower Parsons Advocate
Blackwater State Park Hosts North American Region Finals Event Irish road bowling is not a sport known in most areas but that didn’t stop approximately two dozen competitors from Boston, New York, and West Virginia from attending this vent. Justin Knapp from Huntington closing in on the finish line in a close race with Team […]
Read More W.Va. embraces ancient sport of Irish road bowling
August 17, 2012
Scott Koon
AP
August 17, 2012 - Scott Koon AP
BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va. (AP) — It sounds as if it ought to be a drinking game: Grown men and women hurl a 2-pound cannonball as far as they can down a paved country road, each aiming to finish the 1.5-mile, chalk line “course” with the fewest throws. But in some circles, Irish road bowling is serious business. […]
Read More Top Irish Road Bowler in Monongalia County for North American Finals
August 4, 2012
Andrew Clay
WBOY
August 4, 2012 - Andrew Clay WBOY
COOPER’S ROCK -One sport competing for a championship right now that won’t be shown during the Olympics, and not likely to make ESPN either, is Irish Road Bowling. The centuries old Irish sport stopped in West Virginia for the Irish Road Bowling North American Region Finals where more than 20 of the top competitors faced […]
Read More Irish Road Bowling Is Gaining Popularity In The Mountain State
August 4, 2012
Fallon Pierson
WDTV
August 4, 2012 - Fallon Pierson WDTV
Irish Road Bowling has gained a lot of popularity here in the Mountain State over the last seventeen years. As word spread, and people began to realize how fun this sport is, more state parks and festivals have started to pick it up. Saturday evening, bowlers from all across the U.S. and Ireland, came to […]
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