The fourth senior ranking event of the Irish snooker season starts on Saturday at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. The Dublin Snooker Leagues Premier Cup sees a campaign-high total of 65 entries taking part. David Morris leads the rankings at the halfway point of the term but has chosen not[Read More…]
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Sniper’s Snippets: The President’s Cup
By Jonathan Williams In short, it was another disappointing event for me after getting knocked out in the first round. I can’t buy a decent first round draw nowadays. I had Joe Delaney and John O’Sullivan in both events I entered, neither of whom anyone would like to get, especially[Read More…]
Sniper’s Snippets: The National Championships
By Jonathan Williams My Irish Championship was unfortunately very short lived this year. I felt really good going into the event as I had practised a few days beforehand and my shoulder was in no pain at all. However, that all seemed to amount to nothing. I missed some very[Read More…]
Brendan O’Donoghue Wins Irish National Championship
Brendan O’Donoghue regained the Irish National Senior Championship after a 7-3 victory over Rodney Goggins at the Ivy Rooms on Sunday. The Nenagh native had been one of the pre-tournament favourites after a strong season which saw him capture two out of the six previous ranking events this term. After[Read More…]
Irish Open Set for Saturday
The Irish senior amateur campaign resumes this weekend after more than a month of no action with the Irish Open in Carlow. A total of 59 players have entered the second ranking event of the season at the Ivy Rooms, which is sponsored by Hickson Centre. Brendan O’Donoghue won 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…]
Ireland Set for Home Internationals
The 2016 Home Internationals will get under way on Friday, again to be staged at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. The team event pits nations from the British and Irish Isles, as well as some invited countries from further afield, against each other for annual international amateur honours. Ireland[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…]
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…]
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…]
