The Ivy Rooms in Carlow will stage a festival of snooker on the last weekend of May this month. Saturday 28th will showcase the National Scotch Doubles Championship while the National 6-Reds Championship will take place the following day. Entry for the latter is €20 while the doubles event will[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Chinese Conquer Q-School 1
Three players from China have emerged from the first Q-School event with a two-year professional card for the Main Tour. Cao Yupeng secured his immediate return to the circuit after dropping outside the top 64 in the world rankings last season. Cao reached the last 16 of the World Championship[Read More…]
Date Set for Final CrossGuns Junior Series Event
The final event in the inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series will take place on Saturday, May 28th in Dublin. The ninth tournament of the season will be the last opportunity to impress CrossGuns Snooker Club owner Fin Ruane, with an exciting Scholarship for the next campaign at stake. Andrei Blondu has already[Read More…]
Ranking Race for World Grand Prix and Players Championship
The 2016/17 snooker season gets underway later this month and all professional players will already have one eye on the race to qualify for the World Grand Prix and Players Championship. The campaign starts on May 28 and opens with the qualifying rounds of the Indian Open, World Open and[Read More…]
Shoot-Out to Become Ranking Event. No, Really!
Today, World Snooker announced a rather ridiculous intention to make next February’s Snooker Shoot-Out a ranking event. So let’s get this straight. A tournament that involves a format of a mere one frame per round, with a shot-clock and other variations from the general rules of the traditional game, will[Read More…]
Casey Confident About Q-School Chances
There’s no rest for the wicked, the wicked being amateurs, as 2016’s Qualifying School gets under way on Wednesday in Burton. Around 200 hopefuls descend on Meadowside Leisure Centre this week in an effort to gain one of the 12 coveted Main Tour spots available to join the professional ranks.[Read More…]
TJ Dowling Crowned National Champion
Congratulations to TJ Dowling, who has won the Irish National Championship for a third time today at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. Dowling overcame Jonathan Williams in a scrappy final 7-3 to join the likes of David Morris and Vincent Muldoon as three-time winners. The Terry Rogers club player is[Read More…]
WATCH: Williams and Dowling for National Glory
Jonathan Williams will take on TJ Dowling in today’s Irish National Championship final in Carlow. Williams caused a big upset on Saturday when he overcame European Under-21 champion Josh Boileau 6-2 in the last four, while two-time champion Dowling beat David Hogan 6-3. Both players are good guys who have[Read More…]
Sniper Guns Down Goggins in Irish Championship
Jonathan Williams is into the semi-finals of the Irish National Championship after an impressive 5-4 victory over former champion Rodney Goggins on Friday in Carlow. Monaghan man Williams, who writes regularly on the Irish scene for SnookerHQ, had earlier beaten John O’Sullivan 4-2 to reach the quarter-finals. The 28 year-old[Read More…]
Watch: RIBSA National Championships
The National Championship weekend is under way at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. Several finals will be decided including the season champions at intermediate, junior, ladies, masters and billiards level. However, the main event is of course the senior discipline where the last 16 are currently battling it out for the[Read More…]