O’Donoghue wins record sixth Irish Amateur Snooker title

Brendan O’Donoghue continued his domination of Irish Amateur Snooker after winning the National title for the sixth time last weekend, and a third in a row.

In the final which was played at the Snooker Billiards Ireland Academy of Excellence in Carlow, Brendan beat Irish number 1 ranked player Ross Bulman from Youghal 7-5 in a brilliant match which was streamed all over the world.

O’Donoghue was in top form, with in incredible break-building, safety, and long pots in the match to keep the young Youghal man away from the table to claim this record breaking sixth Irish Amateur Snooker title for the forty-year-old Nenagh man, and such is the nature of his achievement than the SBI awarded the perpetual cup to Brendan to keep to celebrate his achievement.

On route to the final, Brendan O’Donoghue beat Eric Pei 4-0 in the last 16 with clubmate Mark Walsh also reaching the last eight, after beating clubmate Mark Gleeson in the round of sixteen but then fell to Donal Foran 5-3 while O’Donoghue accounted for Noel Landers 5-2 and in the semi-final Brendan accounted for Ryan Cronin 6-3.

Brendan O’Donoghue also had the tournament high break with a superb 132 break with clubmate Mark Walsh third with a 103.

Elsewhere on finals weekend in Carlow, New Institute's Noel Gleeson reached the quarter finals of the Under 18 Championship where he bowed out to number 2 seed Ronan McGuirk.

Also last weekend at the end of season awards, New Institute's Tony Seymour was presented with the National Coach of the Year award.