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 attentionHenselite Dreamliner XG bowls.
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
Sports Funding Opportunities
See the above new document that has been placed in the Devco Funding Page.
All the 2019 deadlines are expired however the document still provides member clubs with relevant information
on where funding opportunities exist. The Development Committee will undertake an exercise in early Q1 2020 to
update the document.
If you come across other sources of funding please Ian Wilson email ianwilson10@gmail.com know and we will update the document accordingly.
BLI Prize Presentation 2019
Photos of the above have now been added to the website and can be viewed at
BLI / BLI Handbook / BLI Photos
Also updated is the rolls of honour of League, Cup, and Championship winners.
LBLI Prize Presentation 2019
Photos of the above have now been added to the website and can be viewed at
LBLI / LBLI General / LBLI Photos
Apologies for the delay in posting them but there were a few technical hitches that now have been resolved.