There are exciting times ahead for young players in Dublin and across Ireland with the launch of a new Junior Snooker Academy in CrossGuns Snooker Club. Fin Ruane, the owner of CrossGuns in Phibsboro, is delighted to put his recently acquired status as a WPBSA World Snooker coach to good[Read More…]
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October Snooker Player of the Month
October was another busy month on the baize with plenty of silverware handed out all around the world. There were two ranking events in Europe and another that is currently ongoing in China, while the World Women’s Tour ventured into new territory with a successful staging of the inaugural Australian[Read More…]
August Snooker Player of the Month
Although we enjoyed a longer off-season than normal this summer, the action is beginning to come thick and fast as we gather a little momentum for this fledgling campaign. The champions of three ranking events have already been determined with Neil Robertson, Mark Williams, and most recently Kyren Wilson getting[Read More…]
Fin’s Fables: The 1996 Snooker World Cup
By Fin Ruane Just over two months ago the snooker world was fixated on Sheffield as the blue riband event of the season took place. This year, the World Championship was even more special as it was the 40th anniversary of the prestigious event being held at the iconic Crucible[Read More…]
Memories of 1997 – Ken Doherty Wins the World Snooker Championship
Originally Published: 14th April, 2017 By Fin Ruane On the eve of the 2017 World Snooker Championship, just like the millions of snooker fans across the world, I cannot wait for the action to begin. Whilst we all hope for an exciting championship with plenty of headlines for all the[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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]