2005 Irish Professional Championship Explained

Tournament Name:Irish Professional Championship
Venue:Spawell Sport & Leisure Complex
Location:Templeogue
Country:Republic of Ireland
Format:Non-Ranking event
Total Prize Fund:11,500[1]
Winners Share:5,000
Highest Break: Joe Swail (142)
Winner: Joe Swail
Runner Up: Ken Doherty
Score:9–7
Previous:1993
Next:2006

The 2005 Irish Professional Championship was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which took place between 22 and 26 October 2005. The tournament was held at the Spawell Sport & Leisure Complex in Templeogue, and featured twenty-four exclusively Irish and Northern Irish players.[2]

The qualifying round, last-16, quarter-final and semi-final matches were played over the best of nine frames, and the final over the best of seventeen. Joe Swail won the event, beating Ken Doherty 9–7 in the final.[3]

Results

Main draw

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Qualifying

Last 24 (Best of 9 frames)

Century breaks

Notes and References

  1. News: Top pros cue up at Spawell . subscription. 21 October 2005. Evening Herald (Dublin). 70.
  2. Web site: 2005 Irish Professional Championship . https://archive.today/20090108045819/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Results/2005-6/2005%20IRISH_PRO_CHAMPS.htm . dead . 8 January 2009 . Global Snooker Centre . 4 December 2017.
  3. Web site: 2005 Irish Professional Championship Results Grid. Snooker Database. 21 November 2017. 1 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033037/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResultGrid.aspx?EventKey=583. dead.