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GALWAY BAY
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HOTEL IRISH
HOTEL IRISH

CLUB
CLUB
CHAMPIONSHIP
CHAMPIONSHIP
Cookstown Parochial con-
tinued Mid Ulster’s domi-
nance of the Galway Bay
Cookstown Hotel Club Championship
Cookstown
with their 6th win in the 15
Parochial
Parochial

years of the competition
added to the 3 won by
Cookstown High. This
year’s competition pro-
duced a number of very
close games and the
Parochial were involved in
several of these. They
began with a game against
Donegal’s Ballylennon
Maghery
coming away with a single Maghery

shot win. Their second
game saw a clash with 3
times winner St Mark’s Por-
tadown winning 26 – 19
thanks to a 12 – 4 win by
Damian McElroy’s rink.
The quarter finals in-
volved Parochial in another
cliff hanger when 3 down
with one single end to play
saw them picking up a 4 to
win 24 – 23 with McElroy’s
Kilskerry
Kilskerry

rink again the deciding fac-
tor winning 11 – 5. There
were wins for Magilligan
over 1st Ahoghill, Maghery
over Spa GC and Bishop
Street over Sydenham.
In the semi-finals
Parochial had a comfort-
able 36 – 11 win over Mag-
illigan while Donegal’s
Maghery defeated Bishop Derramore
Street 33 – 24. Derramore