Ireland through to Quarter Finals

Ken Doherty clinched the final frame against Wales to see Ireland though to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup to be held tomorrow in Bangkok, Thailand. The Irish have had mixed results all week and a 3-2 victory for Pakistan today meant that the Irish duo of Fergal O’Brien and Ken Doherty had to
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Muldoon Turns On The Style

Vincent Muldoon from Maynooth SC turned on the style in his second match at the World under 21 snooker championships here in Montreal Canada. The Irish man made breaks of 101, 80, 71, 71, and 41 in beating Simon Lee from Hong Kong to win his second match in a row to top his group.
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IBSF World U-21 Championships Montreal Ref’s Blog by Stephen Sherry

Welcome to my referees blog which will be updated periodically throughout the ‘World under 21 Snooker Championships’ in Montreal Canada. Throughout the week I will be posting the entire goings on in Montreal with one or two Snooker rule questions which might be of interest to you. Day 1. 12.07.2011 We arrived after a long
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Day 1 World U-21’s

Day one of the 2011 IBSF World under 21 snooker championships here in Montreal Canada had four wins for our Republic Of Ireland snooker players. David Cassidy from Cork opened the championship for the Irish team with a good 4-1 victory over Bogman Cozmacius from Romania. Jason Devaney from Mayo then recorded a 4-0 victory over local
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World Under-21 Ceremony

The opening ceremony was held tonight in the Sheraton Hotel in Montreal with the IBSF announcing that the groups have been redone due to players not arriving for the event. David Cassidy is now in Group A Vincent Muldoon is in Group E Jason Devaney is in Group D Greg Casey is in Group F Five players from
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Ken Doherty Summer Camps

Summer Snooker Coaching Camps were held by our National Coach PJ Nolan in the Ken Doherty Snooker Academy in Terenure Dublin from the 27th June to the 8th of July and it was hailed a great success by Ken Doherty and all the players. Players aged 8 years to 40 years attended the camp from Dublin,

Opening Ceremony Live

The Canadian Snooker Association have informed us that the opening ceremony of the World Under-21 Championships will be broadcast live via the internet. They are promising a high quality stream of the event which will start at 7pm on Tuesday night (Canadian Time), which works out at 12 midnight Irish time. Unfortunately however there is
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Sutton wins the Summer Open

John Sutton beat Brendan O’Donoghue 3-2 in the final of the first Ivy Rooms Summer Open in Carlow on Saturday. For the time of year the event still attracted a quality field with three ex Irish Champions in attendance including O’Donoghue, TJ Dowling and three time champion and current professional David Morris. However it was Sutton

Home Internationals 2011

The 2011 Home Internationals will take place in Prestatyn, Wales from the 9th to 15th of September alongside the famous Pontins Pro Am and we are currently trying to finalise the squads. Every year Ireland is one of the best represented countries at the event with nearly 80 players and supporters travelling last year. Senior

Snooker World Cup

It was 1979 when the first Snooker World Cup was introduced and Ireland in the mid eighty’s was the team to beat as the North and South joined together with the formidable team of Alex Higgins, Dennis Taylor and Eugene Hughes (Pictured). The trio won the event three times in all before the event stopped