Wayne Doyle wins the 3rd ranking event of the season beating Rodney goggins in the final on Sunday 8th of November. The first round eliminations where 8 times Irish champion Eugene Hughes loosing out in a close match to 3 times Irish billiards champion Rodney goggins. Robert mc Crum lost to Anthony o’flaherty, the 4th seed Ross doyle loosing out to John Downey, Aonghus mcanally loosing out to Lloyd myers, Jason dowling loosing out to John Kehoe, Brendan devlin loosing to junior billiards player Ciaran Doyle and 6 times Irish champion Larry drennan loosing out to 7 times Irish champion and all Ireland champion Wayne Doyle who made breaks of 59, 105,106 and 180 the days highest break.
Into the last 8 and 7 times Irish champion Aidan Murray having had a bye into the last 8 never seemed to settled which seen Rodney goggins cruise into the last 4 with breaks of 91 and 54. Next to make they’re way into the semi finals was Anthony o’flaherty with a close 30 point win over the improving John Downey, John Kehoe had a comfortable win over Lloyd myers with a top break of 50. And last into the semi finals was Wayne Doyle who got the better of his younger brother Ciaran.
Into the semi finals and both semi finals where one sided with Rodney goggins getting the better of Anthony with breaks of 87,60 and 64 made his way to the final, Wayne on the next table with breaks of 87 and 62 moved into the final.
The final started off scrappy but with back to back breaks of 80 and 67 Wayne established a lead and kept the lead for the rest of the match to win the final by 200+ when the bell rang .
Well done to Wayne and unlucky to Rodney .
