Last weekend I had a great honour to coach and manage the Ireland Senior Snooker team of Robert Murphy, Michael Judge, TJ Dowling and John Farrell to win the prince of Wales Home International Perpetual Shield. The event was held in the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds where Ireland faced England, Wales, N Ireland, Scotland,…
Last weekend my 147academy returned to the beautiful city of Saint Quentin in Northern France to hold another 147academy camp in the Academia de Billiard. Among the players who attended were former National French Champion Jean Marc Beauchamp and one of the leading French Juniors Nicolas Mortreux plus local club players Frederic Dieupart, Philippe Proix and Fabienne Wemeaux. During the…
Last weekend my 147 Academy travelled to Northern Austria to hold another training camp for the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association. This camp was held in the Union Wels Billiard Club which is run by Austrian Coach Guenther Echhart. The camp started off with a two hour mental training session by leading Austrian Mental Coach…
My 147academy students Brendan O Donoghue from the New Institute snooker club in Nenagh and Rodney Goggins from Liam Mellows SC in Wexford reached the final of the Republic Of Ireland Senior Snooker Championships in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow on Sunday the 7th of May. In the final Rodney went 2 nil up but back…
The 147academy Under 12 RIBSA National Snooker Championship was held on the 7th of May in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. It was great to see young talented Irish junior players battle it out for my 2017 title. This year it was Leone Crowley from Shooters Snooker Club in Cork who claimed the 147academy National Irish title with…
My 147academy returned to the beautiful city of Bucharest this week to hold another training camp arranged by the Real Snooker Tour of Romania in the newly opened Century Snooker Club. This camp was to promote the game and provide the players with more guidance to improve their game to a higher level. The 14 players…
What an unbelievable weekend for my 147acdemy student 15 year old Ross Bulman from Youghal CYMS when he won four under Age Irish Titles during RIBSA Finals Weekend in the Ivy Rooms on the 6th and 7th of May. Ross won the Irish Under 16, Under 18, Under 19 and Under 21 National Titles. In…
The 8th & 9th of April my 147academy returned to Vienna in Austria to hold my latest Camp for the Austrian National Team. The Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association organised the camp and invited eight players from the National Rankings with Andreas Ploner, Manuel Pomwenger, Elias Kapitany, Serbest Hussein, Oskar Charlesworth, Jérôme Liedtke, Alexander Trinkl, Philipp Koch and Patrick Stift all…
Last week my 147 Academy travelled to the city of Tel Aviv in Israel to hold another snooker training camp for Israeli Champion Shachar Ruberg. This camp was aimed to prepare Shachar on his new Star Table for the 2017 EBSA European Snooker Championship in Cyprus next month. During this camp Shachar practiced various routines…
My 147 Academy travelled this weekend to the HSEBC Cue Sports Academy in Vienna, Austria to hold a two day Coaching Camp, This camp was aimed at preparing the Austrian National Team players for the upcoming EBSA European Under 18, Under 21 and Men’s Snooker Championships which is being held in Cyprus later next month. The…