Kathleen Megrath

Kathleen Megrath is a former international lawn bowler from Northern Ireland who competed at the Commonwealth Games. She began as a member of the Belfast Bowls Club and the Belfast Indoor Bowls Club and represented the combined Ireland team at international level. She was a five-times champion of Ireland at the Irish National Bowls Championships, winning the triples in 1985, 1987 and 1989 and the fours in 1984 and 1985, and she won the fours title at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1985 and 1986 and the triples in 1988. Her last national titles came with the Saintfield Bowls Club. She represented Northern Ireland in the fours at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, alongside Hilda Hamilton, Nan Allely and Maureen Mallon. After she was left out of the Irish squad for the 1990 home internationals she refused to travel to the British Isles Championships, which forced Ireland to concede its triples participation, and she received a two-year ban.