Northern Ireland endured a disappointing Commonwealth Games in Melbourne as they returned home with just two medals.

Their first success came in the men's triples in the lawn bowls tournament when Neil Booth, Mark McPeak and Jeremy Henry took the silver medal after an 8-6 10-4 defeat in the gold-medal game to Australia's team of Mark Casey, Bill Cornehls and Wayne Turley.

And shooter David Beattie doubled the tally in the men's trap, again landing a silver medal.

Beattie, competing at his first Games, was tied on 138 points with New Zealand's Graeme Ede and India's Manavjit Singh Sandhu after the conclusion of the two-day competition.

However, Ede held his nerve in the shoot-off, and Beattie had to settle for silver.

They had travelled to Australia with high hopes of success in boxing with cousins Dermot and TJ Hamill.

However, both failed to deliver as they made early exits from the competition at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

Dermot started off well enough when he beat Tanzania's Hashim Petro 16-3 in the first round.

However, his gold-medal hopes came to an abrupt end in the next round when he was narrowly beaten by Wales fighter Jamie Crees, who eventually took the bronze medal, 22-21.

TJ advanced further than his cousin but still returned home empty handed after a quarter-final defeat to England's Neil Perkins.

He started with a 26-24 win over Zambia's Ellis Chibuye and enjoyed an easy stoppage victory over Kenya's Absolom Okoth in the second round.

But Perkins proved a step to far in the last eight and the England captain moved into the semi-finals with a 36-19 triumph.

James McIlroy had hopes of a medal in the men's 800m but ran disappointingly in the first round and his medal aspirations disappeared almost immediately as he struggled home in fourth, failing to progress any further.

And that summed up a disappointing two weeks in Melbourne for Northern Ireland.