Paul Daly (born 28 March 1972) is a Northern Irish international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

Bowls career

International

Daly won a silver medal in the men's triples at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

. He also won a bronze medal in the triples and fours at the

2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Lockleys Bowling Club in Adelaide, Australia, from 24 November to 9 December 2012. Some of the qualifying rounds were held at the nearby Holdfast Bowling Club in Glenelg North. Leif Se ...

National Championships

Daly is an eight times

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 which pr ...

winner, including winning the singles title in 2011, bowling for Ulster Transport Bowls Club. His first title came in 1993 in the fours for Belmont BC and followed this up in 1996 when winning the triples in 1996, again for Belmont. Nine years later in 2005, he won the triples bowling for Ulster Transport BC. In 2011, he won the triples in addition to the singles. He later switched clubs moving back to the Belmont club. In 2022, he won his sixth national title when winning the fours at the Irish National Bowls Championships. The following year in 2023, he won the fours title, with Ryan Cavan, Nigel Beggs & Simon Martin at the

British Isles Bowls Championships The British Isles Bowls Championships is a tournament held between the champions of their respective nations, England Scotland, Wales, combined Ireland and more recently Guernsey and Jersey. It was first held in 1960 although the triples event did ...

, held in Ayr. On 2 September 2023, Daly won two more national titles; the pairs (with Simon Martin) and the triples (with Martin and

Mark McPeak Mark Brian McPeak (born 1968) is an Irish international lawn and indoor bowler born in Northern Ireland. Bowls career He won a silver medal in the Men's triples at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Thornbury, Victoria. He is a four times Nati ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daly, Paul 1972 births Living people Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Northern Ireland Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games