Greystones Bowling Club Add €5,000 To The Kitty

Club’s Sally Ryan, Fergus O’Brien, Margaret Williams and Sean O’Brien with Texaco’s Damien Burke

atest press release from Texaco, issued on Thursday, September 18th 2025…

Greystones Bowling Club has been chosen winners of the Wicklow County award in this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative.

A cheque for €5,000 has been presented to the Club to purchase sets of junior bowls for its younger members.

Established 40 years ago, Greystones Bowling Club currently has over 100 members and prides itself on being a source of social interaction for its community. This year, in an effort to encourage more young people to get involved in the sport of bowling, the Club organised a Transition Year competition for four Greystones schools.

Now in its fifth year, the Texaco Support for Sport initiative – organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, the company that markets fuel in Ireland under the Texaco brand – sees a fund of EUR130,000 set aside annually for allocation in equal amounts of €5,000 to successful applicants chosen on a county-by-county basis. Previous Wicklow winners were Roundwood & District Athletic Club (2021), Valleymount LGFA Club (2022), Wicklow Archers Archery Club (2023) and Blessington GAA Club (2024).

Congratulating the county winners on the immense contribution that they make to the heart of community life in Ireland, James Twohig, Director of Ireland Operations, Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited was particularly praiseworthy of the unstinting work of club officials and volunteers, and noted that “since its inception, we are proud to have distributed almost €650,000 to a variety of more than 125 sports clubs under the Texaco Support for Sport initiative.”

Overseeing the judging process was Texaco Support for Sport ambassador, former Irish rugby international and well-known broadcaster, Donncha O’Callaghan. Commenting, he said: “As adjudicator – and from my knowledge of sport gained at junior, senior and international level – the most reassuring aspect of the Texaco Support for Sport initiative is that it gives clubs rare access to funds which are not linked to popularity, membership size or success.”

Describing the Wicklow club as “a most deserving recipient”, he went on to add: “Well done to everyone in Greystones Bowling Club. The Club’s self-awareness to realise it needs to invest in grassroots membership is commendable. The new junior equipment will help bring on the next generation of bowlers and I have no doubt that older members will mentor newer members on the skills of the sport they love so much.”

Entries for the 2026 Texaco Support for Sport initiative will open again in the New Year for all clubs, including those whose application may have been unsuccessful previously.

You can find out more about that free moolah here, and about Greystones Bowling Club right here.