On Friday the 3rd of October my 147 Academy travelled to Germany to hold a junior development Coaching day in Breakers Snooker Club in the city of Rüsselsheim. The eight players LORIS LEHMANN, FELIX FREDE, SAMUEL MURSCHALL, TJORVEN HECHT, WILLIAM FREY, SVEN GORAN MAIER, RICHARD WIENOLD and KEVIN STRELOW were selected from all across Germany and…
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Last week my 147 Academy travelled to Warsaw in Poland to hold my latest coaching camp for the Polish Billiards & Snooker Association. The five day training camp was organised to improve the national teams technique, potting skills and training program. Among the players who attended the camp included the 2011 European U-21 Champion and former…
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My 147academy welcomed the German National Snooker Coach Thomas Hein to the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow for a coaching session. Thomas is the head snooker Bundestrainer in Germany and during the session I outlined my plans for the upcoming PJ Nolan Coaching day on the 3rd October in Rüsselsheim. Thomas said he was very impressed…
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Last month my 147 Academy travelled all across Austria to hold Cue Zones in three different cities on behalf of the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association. First I arrived in Innsbruck where I held the first training cue zone in Jimmy’s Billiard Sport Arena which is owned by Jimmy Riml who invented a laser system to allow…
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Last weekend I had the honour of coaching the RIBSA Junior team to win the 2014 Celtic Challenge for the first time since 2009 in the Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli. I believe the preparation was key in this victory as RIBSA had held three Coaching & Training Camps for the team in the Ivy Rooms Snooker…
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My 147academy held a two day summer camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow with Jordan McCarthy, Dylan Keightley, Jamie McGowan, Jack Connolly, Paddy Brady, James Quigley, John Leacy, Adam Maher, Barry Sinnott, Joe McEntergart, Ben Doyle, Andrew Doherty and James Hurley. Each student attended training each day from 11am – 4pm and they…
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Last weekend I travelled to Charleroi in Belgium to hold a snooker training camp in the Charleroi Snooker Club. The Snooker camp was organised by Raphael Profeta and featured players from France and all across Belgium. It was a great honour to see players travelling long distances to receive my coaching including leading Belgian player Alain…
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It was an amazing performance from two of my young International 147academy players Shachar Ruberg from Israel and Andreas Ploner from Austria who qualified for the 2014 Sangsom World 6 Red Championships with superb victories over top class opponents. Andreas Ploner had breaks of 34, 38 and 59 during his 5-1 win over Mitchell Mann in…
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147academy player Mark Tuite from Ireland won the 2014 European Masters Championship in Sofia Bulgaria last week. In the final he defeated Belgium’s Alain Vandersteen in a trilling final frame decider that had everyone biting their nails for over 4 hours of exciting hard match-play snooker. It was a very proud day for my 147academy as…
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My 147academy sponsored the first ever RIBSA Irish Under 12 National Snooker Championship for 2014 in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. It was great to see young players from all around Ireland battle it out for the title. Corey Ramsbottom from Carlow and Dean Roche from Youghal both played great to reach the final and…
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