O’Donoghue wins fourth Amateur Snooker event

Current National Amateur champion Brendan O’Donoghue from Nenagh won the Snooker & Billiards Ireland’s (SBI) fourth event on the Amateur Tour last weekend in the SBI Headquarters in Carlow.

In the final, Brendan beat Greg Casey from Cork in a great match which was live streamed via the SBI YouTube page. In the end, it was Brendan who came out with a 4 frames to 2 victory to claim the title. The highest break went to Davy Morris with a 134 break.

56 players entered this event, and the standard was excellent with great match-play snooker over the weekend. With the large entry, it was decided to play the last 16 on the Sunday morning, this was to stop the long delays between matches for some players.

There was a number of shock results in the earlier rounds with Daniel Merrigan victory over No. 3 seed Stephen Bateman. Chris Humphries beat Noel Landers, Noel Gleeson beat George O’Hara and Greg Casey beating the No. 4 seed David Cassidy.

In the last 16, Davy Morris beat No.1 seed Ross Bulman who had won the previous two events. Jonathan Williams had a fantastic run to the semi-finals while Greg Casey had an outstanding event in reaching another final. Nenagh’s Mark Gleeson lost 3-0 to Mark Tuite while Brendan O’Donoghue beat Aaron Tobin by the same score. In the quarter finals, O’Donoghue had a 4-2 win over Ryan Cronin while in the semi-finals he defeated Jonathan Williams 4-3.

Event 5 will be held in the Crucible SC on the weekend of 25/26 March.