Last weekend my 147academy travelled to Salzburg in Austria to hold a two day snooker training camp on behalf of the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association. This camp was held in the Billiard Leistungszentrum in Salzburg and featured Andreas Ploner, Florian Nüßle, Markus Pfistermüller and Christian Hochmayer who will compete for Austria in the 2017 World…
Last week my 147academy travelled to the city of Milan in Italy to hold another training camp in the beautiful Ambrosian Snooker Academy. The camp was again organised by Davide Coltro who is the head EBSA Coach in Italy and the main developer of the sport of snooker within F.I.B.I.S. who are the National Governing…
Last week I had the pleasure of coaching a very talented 14 year old snooker player Jan Matějíček in Třebíč in the Czech Republic. Jan has a beautiful new Star Table to practice on and I was very impressed with his attitude. Each day he got stronger and stronger by learning the techniques and shots…
My 147academy travelled to the city of Vienna in Austria this weekend to hold my latest National Team Training Camp for the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association in the HSEBC Cue Sports Academy. This camp was focused on preparing the Austrian players for the 2017 IBSF World Snooker Championships which is being held in Qatar…
My 147 Academy returned to the beautiful city of Gérardmer in the North East of France to hold another snooker camp which was organised by Jean-Michel Martin from the Gérardmer Billiard Club. It was a great honour to be asked to return to Gérardmer which is also known as the pearl of the Vosges to…
Last week my 147academy travelled to the amazing city of Budapest in Hungary to hold a snooker training camp to train 16 players in the Rex Williams Snooker Club. The camp was organised by Hungarian Snooker Gala team and a junior and senior camp was held with some of the players who have competed for…
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…