Phil Arnold heading to Berlin

Congratulations to Celbridge player Phil Arnold who won the Amateur Cup in Killarney today beating Benny O’Brien 3-1 in the final.  Phil will now play in the televised stages at the German Masters in Berlin next February as his reward for winning the Amateur Cup. The event was restricted to all Irish and Continental European
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Sutton and Morris make their mark on the champ!

It was a memorable weekend for the Irish at PTC No.7 in Gloucester with both John Sutton and David Morris both making their mark on World Champion John Higgins. Sutton is flying high at the moment after reaching the final of the first Irish Ranking Event of the season but it’s the quality PTC match practice that has got him
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PJ Nolan becomes a World Snooker Coach

This week in Sheffield PJ Nolan qualified to become an official World Snooker recognised Coach. PJ was invited by the WPBSA to attend a two day intensive training course in the England Institute of Sport in Sheffield where all the WSA qualifying events are held during the season. Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths and Chris Lovell
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WPBSA Chairman Visits Carlow

Jason Ferguson Chairman of WPBSA visited the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow to attend the IBSF World Billiards championships today. He was joined by Alan Chamberlain who is a former professional referee and a current board member of WPBSA and head of the new rules committee. Both had a meeting with the Chairman of
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Fancy a Wildcard for German Masters?

Just another bit of interesting news on the PTC event scheduled for Killarney this October. The organisers have confirmed that similar to the other European versions of the PTC Series there will be an additional tournament for all the amateur players who enter the event. The additional side tournament will take place over the weekend

Hogan on a Lucky Streak

David Hogan had a bit of good fortune as the second qualifying event of the season gets up and running in Sheffield. The Shanghai Masters Qualifiers got underway yesterday in the Academy and Hogan was unfortunately drawn in the preliminary round. That was where his bad luck ended however as he was drawn against Lucky
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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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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