Eileen Bell (bowls)

Bell started bowling in the 1960s in her home town of Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland. Bell won the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship pairs Gold in Toronto when partnering Nan Allely. She bowled for the Belfast BC (outdoors) and Shaws Bridge (indoors).

Bell represented the Northern Irish team^[2] at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia,^[3] where she competed in the triples event,^[4] with Nan Allely and Daisy Fraser.^[5]

Bell represented the Northern Irish team again^[6] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she competed in the singles event.^[7]

Bell is the winner of nine Irish National Bowls Championships and has been three times British Isles Bowls Championships singles title holder (1974, 1983 & 1986), a record only bettered by fellow Irish bowler Margaret Johnston. In addition she has also won a triples and fours title.^[8][9]