Prague Coaching Camp

Last month I travelled to the beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic to hold a 7 day snooker training camp in the Billiard Centrum Sports Club. A selection of players who compete in various Czech Republic ranking events teamed up with players from the National Team to attend the training course to promote the…

Austria Coaching with PJ

The 2012 – 2013 season promises to be another exciting season for my 147Academy as The Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association have just announced their Association will be holding PJ Nolan coaching camps for the National teams in selected clubs throughout Austria next season. National team training camps are planned for Salzburg, Vienna and Graz throughout…

Ireland win Home Internationals

This week I had a great honour to coach and manage the Ireland Senior team of Brendan O Donoghue, Rodney Goggins, Greg Casey, Johnny Williams and Robert Redmond to win the prince of Wales Home International Perpetual Shield.  The event was held in Pontins in Prestynn, North Wales where Ireland faced England, Wales A, Wales…

2012 World Snooker Cue Zone

One of the highlights of the summer was when I was invited by World Snooker to lead the cue zone at this year’s world snooker championship in the Crucible in Sheffield. Players from 5 years old to 87 years old participated throughout the Saturday, Sunday and Monday on specific routines against the stopwatch and some…

UAE Coaching Camp

April has certainly be a busy month for Republic of Ireland National Coach PJ Nolan. The Official World Snooker Coach will be our lead coach in the Cue Zone in Sheffield but before that the much sought after coach is currently in Dubai working with the UAE’s finest snooker players as they prepare for their…

Belgium Coaching Camp

One place in the world I love returning to hold coaching camps, is the Le Safety Snooker Club in Chatelet in Belgium. Chatelet is a small town located on the border between France and Belgium and snooker in this region is very popular. The Club was formerly owned by the French number one lady player Sandrine Vlamynck who died…

Official World Snooker Coach

PJ Nolan became an official W.P.B.S.A. World Snooker Coach when he was invited by the WPBSA to attend an intensive training course in the England Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths and Chris Lovell conducted the two day seminar which covered all aspects of the game and PJ becomes the first ever…

Ruberg two 147 Breaks

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…

Muldoon reaches EBSA Final

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…

India Camp – New Delhi

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…