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In the over 55's Moortown's Tommy Quinn and John Joe O'Neill could not repeat their ex- 23
cellent qualifying form losing out to club mates Malachy O'Neill and Colum O'Hagan.
In the ladies it was a double for Cookstown Parochial's Brigid Davidson with qualification in
the singles and triples where she was accompanied by Denise McHugh and Melissa Hanlon. in
the pairs last Year’s IIBA runners up Maghera's Shiela Anderson and Mildred Martin won to have
another go at claiming the overall title. St Swithins Andrew Evans beat Moneymore's Robert Paul
to win junior singles.

Club Champions St Marks
With Irish President Flo McNally presenting the Championship Shield
to the St Marks Captain Andrew Lecky

Galway Bay Irish Club Championship
Galway Bay Irish Club Championship
This year's Irish Club Champi-
onship, sponsored by the Gal-
way Bay Hotel, was held over 2
qualifying Saturdays. Last sea-
son's winners and winners on 5
occasions, Cookstown
Parochial. were expected to
strongly contest this year's
event but as often happens the
unexpected took place.
Parochial got off to a
shaky start with a narrow and
fortunate win over Michelin and
fortunate but came through
comfortably in the next 2 games.
In their section final they met newcomers, Sydenham and were comprehensively beaten with
one rink 17 - 1 down, one 15 - 1 up and the other 14 - 3 down. In the second section Loughenreagh
came through comfortably.