Bernie O'Neill (bowls)
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Bernadette O'Neill is a Northern Irish international
lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...
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Bowls career


International

O'Neill won the bronze medal in the fours and pairs at the
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, New Zealand. In addition she won a gold medal at the World Champion of Champions in the triples. In 2009, she won the fours and pairs bronze medals at the
Atlantic Bowls Championships The Atlantic Bowls Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Atlantic region. The event was a qualifying event for the World Bowls Championship, World Outdoor Bowls Championships until ...
and in 2015 she won the triples gold medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.


National

O'Neill won three singles titles at the
Irish National Bowls Championships The Irish National Bowls Championships combines Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Traditionally, the game was played mainly in Northern Ireland, but the Kenilworth Bowling Club of Dublin joined the Irish Bowls Association in 1906, wh ...
bowling for the Portstewart Bowls Club, in 1999, 2014 and 2016. She also won the pairs in 2004 and the triples in 2024.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:ONeill, Bernie Female lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century sportswomen from Northern Ireland