Guide to this website
If you are having problems finding your way around this website hopefully the guide below will help you find what you are looking for.
Website Guide
IRISH LAWN BOWLS
Welcome to the official site of the Bowling League of Ireland and the Ladies Bowling League of Ireland.
Irish Lawn Bowls is the combination of the Bowling League of Ireland (BLI) and the Ladies Bowling League of Ireland (LBLI), the governing body for Lawn Bowls in the Republic of Ireland. The game is fast growing with clubs now in the following counties: Cork, Dublin, Kildare, Limerick, Meath, Offaly, Sligo, Waterford, and Wicklow. There are however many other counties where clubs are in the process of being formed.
Lawn bowls is a sport for all ages with competitors aged from under 10 to almost 100 currently playing in BLI/LBLI affiliated clubs.
If you are new to the sport of bowls and want to find out how to play the game have a look at the following link which will help you find out how to play.
Map of Bowling Clubs within the BLI / LBLI
Click on the “view larger map” button at the top right of picture for more details. Note the details are what the individual club has put on Google and may not always be a 100% correct.
A full list of BLI Member clubs together with their website details can be found at
For club addresses and Secretary Details see
Welcome to the BLI / LBLI Blog
Here will be posted various notice that we want to bring to your attentionLBLI Championship Closing Dates
The above have been updated on the website for 2020.
BLI Updates
The following updates have been made to the BLI section of the website :-
- 2020 BLI Championship closing dates,
- BLI Calendar
- BLI Council Meetings dates 2020
- Club Tournament Dates
In addition a new page containing the League and Cup dates for 2020 has been included in the League section.
The BLI Competition Rules have also been updated to incorporate the changes made at the recent Special Meeting.
Inter Association Panel
The following is the 24 man panel for the 2020 Senior Inter Association which will be played in Dublin on the 8th and 9th of May next in CYM and Crumlin Bowling clubs. CYM will be the home green for the BLI.
| 1 | C. O Brien | Cym |
| 2 | M. O Sullivan | DL |
| 3 | M. Cusack | DL |
| 4 | G. Pierpoint | Cym |
| 5 | S. Millane | Crumlin |
| 6 | J. Byrne | Crumlin |
| 7 | S. Keegan | Crumlin |
| 8 | A. Murphy | Cym |
| 9 | I. Gillen | Cym |
| 10 | C. Gillen | Cym |
| 11 | M. Tyrrell | DL |
| 12 | A . O’Keeffe | Cym |
| 13 | K. McCarthy | Cym |
| 14 | B. Somers | DL |
| 15 | M. Brown | DL |
| 16 | R. Leonard | Crumlin |
| 17 | A. Grey | DL |
| 18 | T. Smyth | Leinster |
| 19 | N. Smyth | Crumlin |
| 20 | M. Gorman | Cym |
| 21 | E. Carruth | Crumlin (captain) |
| 22 | R. Maher | Crumlin |
| 23 | I. Wilson | Cym |
| 24 | S. Leonard | Cym |
Congratulations to all those selected.
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BLI Competition Rules
The BLI Competition Rules as revised by the AGM are now on the website.
World Bowls – Ladies team
Congratulations to Sarah Kelly of Crumlin bowling Club who has been selected to represent Ireland at the World Bowls tournament in 2020. The text of the full announcement by Neil Booth, the High Performance Coach is listed below.
The following players have been selected for World Bowls at the Gold Coast in Australia in May/June 2020
Singles Catherine Beattie
Pairs Ashleigh Rainey, Sarah Kelly
Triples Megan Devlin, Catherine Beattie, Shauna O’Neill
I would like to pass on my congratulations to those selected and wish them every success at the Event. I would also like to commend all those players who have represented the Elite Squad this year for their professional approach. It is intended that the next Elite Squad will be selected after the completion of the World Bowls Tournament in June 2020 and will be for a 2 year period leading up to the Commonwealth Games in Leamington Spa in 2022.
If anybody in the Elite Squad would like to meet with the HPC and Team Manager to review the Calendar Year please e-mail the HPC at:nbasrandalstown@outlook.com no sooner than Monday 2nd December and I will accommodate a meeting.
Please do not get in touch before this date.
Neil Booth
High Performance Coach