Ball Sports Events

They call it "bowling," yet it has nothing to do with glossy white pins, oiled wooden lanes, or shoes, colorfully designed for humiliation, that have been worn by a dozen other strangers that day. Welcome to the wacky world of Irish Road Bowling.

As I approached the Westpac ticket office I became nervous. There were already hundreds of people queuing up outside the main gates, most of whom had booked their tickets in October or November last year. It seemed infeasible that I should be able to walk up to the counter and collect a ticket I'd paid for over the telephone yesterday morning.