Q Club Wicklow won the All-Ireland Club Championship on Sunday at the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney. The Club Championship is one of the most highly anticipated competitions on the Irish amateur calendar, with an enjoyable but competitive few days of action the norm in Kerry toward the conclusion of the[Read More…]
Irish Snooker
Michael Judge Wins Premier Cup Again
Michael Judge defended the DBSL Premier Cup with a 4-1 victory over Brendan O’Donoghue on Sunday in Carlow. It marks successive ranking event successes for Judge this season following his triumph in the Presidents Cup last month and safeguarded his spot at the top of the Irish rankings ahead of[Read More…]
Irish Amateurs in Action at Premier Cup
The fourth senior ranking event of the Irish campaign takes place this weekend with the DBSL Premier Cup in Carlow. 52 players, led by ranking event champions this season Brendan O’Donoghue, TJ Dowling and Michael Judge, will compete at the Ivy Rooms on Saturday and Sunday for the €500 top[Read More…]
Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2016
Another 12 months has passed by as we prepare to say goodbye to 2016 in snooker. It was an entertaining year which produced countless moments of magic, comebacks, breakdowns, emotional victories and painful defeats. Over the last few days we took a look at some of the highs and lows[Read More…]
Sniper’s Snippets: The Presidents Cup
By Jonathan Williams I had prepared well coming up to the Presidents Cup – by that I mean I played most days. However, rather than actually practicing potting, I was picking out balls for John Sutton in Potters Drogheda for a few hours each day. Being totally honest I was very low[Read More…]
Michael Judge Rules in Presidents Cup
Michael Judge has won the Presidents Cup after a dramatic comeback final victory over David Hogan in Carlow. Judge, a quarter-finalist in the recent IBSF World Amateur Championship, trailed Hogan 3-0 but four frames on the spin saw the 41 year-old snatch the triumph from the jaws of defeat. Judge[Read More…]
Irish Season Continues with President’s Cup
The third ranking event of the Irish senior amateur campaign takes place this weekend in Carlow. The President’s Cup, sponsored by Eamonn Kearns, has a season low of 55 entrants competing for the €500 winner’s cheque. The top 9 seeds, including Brendan O’Donoghue and TJ Dowling who won the opening two[Read More…]
Michael Judge Makes Quarter-Finals in World Amateur Championship
Michael Judge is into the quarter-finals of the IBSF World Amateur Championship after two knockout victories in Doha on Sunday. The Irishman edged 2012 champion Muhammad Asif 5-3 in the last 32 before a more convincing 5-0 whitewash of Manan Chandra. Judge spent 20 years as a professional player between[Read More…]
Dowling and Judge Through as Kachaiwong Makes Maximum in Doha
TJ Dowling and Michael Judge are both into the last 32 of the IBSF World Amateur Championship in Qatar. Fellow Irishman Jason Devaney is out, though, after falling at the second knockout stage to former professional Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon. The top ranked player from Ireland last season lost 4-0 to the[Read More…]
Irish Move Forward in World Amateurs
Irish trio Michael Judge, TJ Dowling and Jason Devaney have all reached the knockout stages of the 2016 IBSF World Amateur Championship in Qatar. In truth, this is really where the tournament begins proper as the niceties of the opening exchanges have concluded. An incredible 78 out of the initial[Read More…]