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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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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