Last week I travelled to Tel Aviv in Israel to hold another snooker training camp for 17 year old Shachar Ruberg who is fast becoming one of the top junior snooker players in Europe. Shachar joined the PJ Nolan Academy in 2009 and each year the young Israeli school boy has had a dramatic improvement in…
147 Academy member Vincent Muldoon from the Republic Of Ireland reached the final of the 2011 European Snooker Championships in Sofia Bulgaria. RIBSA sent three players Martin McCrudden, Robert Murphy and Vincent to the championships and they were hoping to win the event for second time in three years after David Hogan won the championships back…
I recently travelled to New Delhi to hold a snooker training workshop in India and it was hailed a great success by all the players and organisers. It was a big honour to be invited by Vivek Pathak from Cue Sports India to conduct the workshop to train the Indian players. All standard of players…
147 Academy player Jason Devaney from Crosmolina Snooker Club in County Mayo created more Irish snooker history when he won his biggest title to date when he won the 2011 Republic Of Ireland Senior National Snooker Championships. This historic win put his name on the most famous trophy in Irish snooker to follow in the footsteps of some great…
My 147 Academy was invited to Tehran in Iran to hold a training camp to train the Iran National team. I was invited to train 10 selected players by the Iran Cue Sports Federation for a nine day camp in the new Iran Snooker Academy in the capital of Iran. The Iran academy has four…
Rodney Goggins created Irish snooker history when he made a magical 147 break and won a bronze medal in the 2010 IBSF World Amateur Snooker Championships in Syria. The Wexford man is the first Irishman ever to make a maximum break in the world championship. He is believed to be only the third person in…
147 Academy star David Hogan created history in Belgium this weekend when he became the first Irish man to win the European Snooker Championship. The final was an All-Ireland battle with Mario Fernandez from St Johns Limerick. David won the final 7 frames to 4 in superb match in front of a large audience in…
Qatar’s rising star, Ali Al-Obaidly, won the Arab U-21 Championship 2008 Gold medal. The 16 years old gave his country its first gold medal ever in Arab Championship. This came alongside the team’s first ever Silver Medal in the championship. Ali started off with wins against Lebanon, Libya and Jordan in the round-robin as he qualified first in his group. He then easily…
147Academy player Jason Devaney from Ireland won the Junior Pot Black title in the famous Crucible arena and hopes to be back someday competing in the 888.com World Snooker Championship. Jason had travelled to Sheffield with his coach PJ Nolan and PJ said afterwards that he was so proud of Jason. The 15-year-old from Ballina in County…
Mustafa Shehab from the United Arab Emirates UAE won his biggest titles to date when the Arab Champion won the Men’s singles snooker gold in Asian Indoor Games in China Macau. Shehab took the medal after a close fight. It was a right royal battle from the start and both were seen at their best…