By Jonathan Williams My preparation for the Irish Open last week was pretty decent. I have been playing in the local leagues in Carrickmacross and since I put on a new tip a few weeks ago it sort of made me practice. I did a solid four or five days[Read More…]
Irish Snooker
TJ Dowling Wins Irish Open
TJ Dowling beat Philip Browne 4-1 to capture the Hickson Centra Irish Open at the Ivy Rooms on Sunday. In the second ranking event of the campaign, Dowling reproduced the kind of form which earned him a third National Championship back in May. Dowling, who pocketed €500 for his efforts,[Read More…]
RIBSA Announce Junior Elite Squad Scholarship
The Republic of Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association has announced details of a new Junior Elite Squad of Under-16 players for the 2017/18 season. This comes only a couple of days after RIBSA’s first Junior Development day was held at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow on Saturday. More than 30 players ranging[Read More…]
Sniper’s Snippets: The Barracks Classic
By Jonathan Williams My first event was a bit of a disaster to be honest. I definitely didn’t start the season how I would have liked and I was only a shadow of the player who got to the final of the National Championship in May. My preparation was no[Read More…]
Brendan O’Donoghue Bags Barracks Classic
Brendan O’Donoghue won the first event of the Irish senior ranking campaign after a closely fought 4-3 victory over Robert Murphy on Sunday. The New Institute club player emerged victorious with his first title since the outset of last season as he claimed The Barracks Classic at the Ivy Rooms[Read More…]
Irish Senior Campaign to Commence
The 2016/17 Irish senior campaign gets under way on Saturday at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. 62 players have entered the first event of the season, with six in total scheduled between now and the Irish National Championship in May. Jason Devaney finished the last term ranked number one and[Read More…]
Junior Series Returns in CrossGuns
By Fin Ruane Following on from the huge success of last year, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the second Junior Series at CrossGuns in Dublin will begin in September. My aim to provide junior players with much needed, affordable and regular tournament play will once again run[Read More…]
Ireland Performing Strongly in European Team Championships
The European Men’s Team Championship has been taking place this week in Lithuania. All three Irish teams taking part have emerged easily from the round-robin phase and are well placed to make a run for the title in the knockout stages. Ireland 3, comprising Brendan O’Donoghue and Ryan Cronin, are[Read More…]
Aaron Holland Receives CrossGuns Scholarship Award
By Fin Ruane Earlier, I wrote about the final event in the inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series and who captured the two junior titles. But the last award of the series and possibly the most important was the CrossGuns Scholarship Award. It’s an award I wanted to offer to a junior[Read More…]
Event 9 Concludes Inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series
By Fin Ruane The ninth and final event of this season’s inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series took place at the Phibsboro club last Saturday. Once again a good entry field in both categories set the tone for a day of quality junior snooker. Both the CrossGuns Junior Player of The Year[Read More…]