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Category: SNOOKER

  • Sideline Cuts – 47

    Sideline Cuts – 47

    Ireland’s quietest hero calls time News broke a short while ago the 1997 Snooker World Champion Ken Doherty has called time on his long and illustrious career in the professional ranks in the sport. One of the quietest and most unassuming sporting heroes the island of Ireland has ever produced, the Ranelagh native never did,…

  • Saturdays, cross of the stations and JV’s trickshots

    Saturdays, cross of the stations and JV’s trickshots

    While it is known only too well that repitition is one of the great foibles in this trade, it would always be contended that if a point still carries credence, it’s worth mentioning again. So we duly find ourselves back in the late 1980s or early 90s. Saturday afternoons in my brother-in-law Kieran’s family home…

  • Unusual comforts in strange times

    Unusual comforts in strange times

    It’s presumably fairly widely accepted that there’s no set menu for dealing with grief. It’s very much an individual journey. There’s no road map for it, and even if there were, one could end up with repetitive strain injury from tearing up said document and doing a redraft of same. One thing which only life…

  • At the snooker, really lads?

    At the snooker, really lads?

    The very first Snooker related piece produced in this space, back in 2012, was headlined ‘Sedate Pace But Not Much Grace’. At the time it was in reference to the tempestuous Mark Allen having a petulant spat with somebody or other. Probably all of the sport knowing him. Other than that, we know Ronnie O’Sullivan…

  • The last thing this Rocket needed was fuel

    The last thing this Rocket needed was fuel

    There are large chunks of last year of which this corner has absolutely no recollection. That it was down to delayed reaction to da’s death in June of 2021 is beyond question. There are sporting events which I cannot even remember taking place, never mind who won them. Ask me what horse won the Irish…

  • Familiar comforts in unusual circumstances

    Familiar comforts in unusual circumstances

    In this strangest of strange years, it has been a matter of drawing comfort from wherever it crops up. thus, darts being on at what would be a very unusual time of year for the said discipline was a very welcome distraction amid the chaos. That was fairly extensively covered on a previous outing in…

  • Changing of the guard – to the delight of one place in particular

    #Snooker #Soccer 1985 was a particularly trying year in some ways. Both my maternal grandparents passed away, I underwent major surgery – just some of plenty in those years – and, as far as can be deciphered, there were other significant hurdles to be negotiated. All of which made it a year to forget.

  • The annual appeal of seldom seen brilliance

    Elite participants in any given sport carry a veneer of familiarity. Everybody knows them. Even those who sporadically at best tune in. Those for whom Wimbledon represents the entirety of their tennis intake will know Rafa Nadal and Andy Murray. Anyone who knows what a dart board looks like will have heard of Phil Taylor.…

  • Sedate pace, but no room to age with grace!

    By Brendan Boylan,As well as an extensive reading library of mostly sports biographies, yours truly also keeps a fairly large library of videos and DVDS of sporting action. Contained therein is a variety from GAA, soccer, rugby, racing, basketball and boxing, and maybe more. Also there is a collection of  Jimmy Magee’s favourite sporting memories…