By the time the next World Championship comes around in April and May it’ll be 20 years since Ken Doherty’s famous Crucible triumph. Irish snooker is still waiting for a young talent to emerge and compete with the records that the Dubliner set – a world champion, a six times[Read More…]
Irish Snooker
RIBSA Festival of Snooker
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…]
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…]
Sniper’s Snippets: The National Championship
By Jonathan Williams Wow, so what a tournament that turned out to be! I honestly never thought I’d be writing my final Sniper’s Snippets as runner-up, and it’s funny because I was fully intent on not even entering the National Championship as I had planned on going to a friend’s stag[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…]
Boileau Seeking Successful Amateur Send-Off
Professional snooker may be at an end for the 2015/16 season but there’s still one more big amateur title to be decided on the Irish front. The Irish National Championship reaches its conclusion this weekend in Carlow with 16 players set to battle it out for the campaign ending title.[Read More…]