Irish Professional Championship 2005

Irish Professional Championship 2005 VCpoker.ie Irish Professional Championship 2005
Tournament type:	Non-ranking tournament
Attendees:	24
Venue:	Spawell Sport and Leisure Complex , Templeogue
Opening:	October 22, 2005
Endgame:	October 26, 2005
Defending champion:	Ken Doherty
Winner:	Joe Swail
Finalist:	Ken Doherty
Highest Break:	142 ( Joe Swail )
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The VCpoker.ie Irish Professional Championship 2005 was a professional snooker tournament during the 2005/06 season without any impact on the world rankings. The tournament was to determine the total Irish professional champion from 22 to 26 October 2005 Spawell Sport and Leisure Complex in Ireland Templeogue in South Dublin discharged. The winner was Joe Swail from Northern Ireland , who defeated defending champion Ken Doherty from Ireland in the final. Swail also played the tournament's highest break with a 142 break.

Prize money

The tournament was sponsored by the VCpoker.ie poker platform operated by VC Poker . In total, prize money of € 9,000 or £ 6,122 was distributed, of which a good half went to the winner.

	Prize money €	Prize money £
winner	€ 5,000	£ 3,401
finalist	€ 2,000	£ 1,361
Semi-finalist	€ 1,000	680 pounds
Quarter finalist	-	-
Round of 16	-	-
Last 24	-	-
All in all	€ 9,000	£ 6,122

Tournament course

A good twelve years after the last edition there was a new edition of the tournament, again in the Republic of Ireland. As in the 1990s, eight players for the main round were set in which they first met on eight qualifiers and then in the knockout system playing off the winner. Up to and including the semi-finals, the game was played in the best of 9 frames mode , only the final had a different mode with best of 17 frames .

	Round of 16 best of 9 frames				Quarterfinals Best of 9 Frames				Semi-final Best of 9 frames				Final Best of 17 frames
	Joe Swail	5
	David Morris	0
					Joe Swail	5
					Martin McCrudden	0
	Patrick Wallace	3
	Martin McCrudden	5
									Joe Swail	5
									Gerard Greene	3
	Gerard Greene	5
	Robert Murphy	2
					Gerard Greene	5
					Joe Delaney	3
	Joe Delaney	5
	Gary Hardiman	4th
													Joe Swail	9
													Ken Doherty	7th
	Ken Doherty	5
	Colm Gilcreest	2
					Ken Doherty	5
					Leo Fernandez	3
	Leo Fernandez	5
	Colin Bingham	3
									Ken Doherty	5
									Fergal O'Brien	4th
	Fergal O'Brien	5
	Robert McCullough	0
					Fergal O'Brien	5
					Michael Judge	2
	Michael Judge	5
	Joe Meara	3

final

The Northern Irishman Joe Swail and the Irish ex-world champion Ken Doherty had both won the Irish Professional Championship once - Swail in 1992, Doherty in 1993. Now they met for the first time in the final of the tournament. Swail had largely reached the final without any problems and only had to give up frames when he defeated Gerard Greene in the semi-final. Ken Doherty had to do this before and only reached the final in the decider against Fergal O'Brien . There are no exact frame results from the final itself, but in a close game with a total of three Century Breaks Swail won 9: 7.

Final: Best of 17 Frames Spawell Sport and Leisure Complex ,  Templeogue , Ireland , October 26th 2005
Joe Swail	9 : 7	Ken Doherty
unknown
129	Highest break	124
1	Century breaks	2
-	50+ breaks	-

qualification

Before the main round, the 16 unset players played a qualification in which eight qualifiers were played. All games took place in the best of 9 frames mode .

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	David Morris	05 : 05	Mark Allen
2	Martin McCrudden	35 : 35	Tom Gleeson
3	Robert Murphy	15 : 15	John Connors
4th	Gary Hardiman	25 : 25	Alex Higgins
5	Colm Gilcreest	4th5 : 45	Brendan O'Donoghue
6th	Colin Bingham	35 : 35	Rodney Goggins
7th	Robert McCullough	35 : 35	James Moore
8th	Joe Meara	15 : 15	Nigel Power

Century Breaks

During the tournament two players each played two century breaks :

• Joe Swail : 142 , 129
• Ken Doherty : 124, 114

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ron Florax: 2005 Irish Professional Championship. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 17, 2020 .  
2. ↑ Chris Turner: Irish Professional Championship - Non Ranking Event open to professionals from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland only. (No longer available online.) Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on July 17, 2020 (English).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ron Florax: 2005 Irish Professional Championship - Finishes. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 17, 2020 .  
4. ↑ 2005 Irish Professional Championship Results Grid. Snooker Database, accessed July 17, 2020 .