Dorothy Kane 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 ...

Bowls career

Kane won the triples gold medal at the 1999

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 ...

with

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and

Donna McNally Donna McCloy ( Donna McNally, born 2 September 1972) is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler. Bowls career International McNally won the triples gold medal at the 1999 Atlantic Bowls Championships with Margaret Johnston and Dorothy ...

. Kane has also represented Ireland in the

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at the

2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2000 Men's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Marks Park Bowling Club, in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1 to 15 April 2000. The 2000 Women's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Moama Bowling Club in Moama Moama ( ...

. She became an Irish national champion after winning the 1998 pairs with Ruth Simpson 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 Moat Park Bowls Club. Subsequently the pair went on to win the 1999

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

References

Living people Female lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Year of birth missing (living people) Bowls European Champions 20th-century sportswomen from Northern Ireland 21st-century sportswomen from Northern Ireland {{UK-bowls-bio-stub