Irish LD's Pool Team

12/02/2026

🇮🇪 Support the Irish Learning Disabilities Pool Team 🎱

We are currently seeking businesses across Ireland who would be willing to sponsor and support the Irish Learning Disabilities Pool Team.

Our team proudly represents Ireland at major international events including the Nations Cup, European Championships and World Championships. These competitions give our players the opportunity to compete on the world stage, build confidence, and represent our country with pride.

As a team, all of our funding is either self-funded or raised by ourselves. Any sponsorship or support we receive goes directly towards helping our players cover essential costs such as: ✈️ Flights
🏨 Accommodation
🎱 Competition expenses

Every euro raised goes back to the players to help make these trips possible.

By sponsoring our team, your business would be supporting inclusion, opportunity, and Irish athletes with learning disabilities to achieve their sporting goals. We would be delighted to promote and acknowledge our sponsors across our social media and at events.

If your business, or a business you know, would like to get involved or learn more, please get in touch with us directly or comment below.

Thank you for supporting Irish sport and inclusion 🇮🇪💙

11/02/2026

💚 SPONSORSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT 💚

We are absolutely delighted and incredibly grateful to announce that First For Feet – Podiatry & Chiropody have kindly sponsored the Irish Learning Disabilities Pool Team 🇮🇪🎱

Their support means so much to us and will help our players with the costs of travel, accommodation, and expenses as we continue representing Ireland at upcoming events.

As a team, we work extremely hard to compete at the highest level possible, and support like this makes a huge difference in helping our players achieve their goals and dreams.

A massive thank you to everyone at First For Feet for believing in us and supporting our journey. Your generosity and kindness will not be forgotten 👏💚

Please support this amazing local business who are supporting Irish sport!

💚 Thank you First For Feet! 💚
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15/11/2025

🎱𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱! 🏆

Congratulations to Georgie Lynam Jnr and Liam Daly on winning the LDs doubles European Championships!

We are very proud of you lads!

Enjoy your victory 🇮🇪 💪

14/11/2025

Update on the Europeans for our Irish LD's.
Our Captain and Players Representative ( Liam Daly & Georgie Lynam Jnr ) The Ultimate duo 🇮🇪💪🎱, have won 3-2 in a nail biting Doubles game to get into the Doubles Finals tomorrow at 9am.

On another note, Georgie has also scraped into the 1/4 Finals of the Singles and is playing tonight at 9pm.💪🇮🇪🎱

Unfortunately, we lost our team event matches and lost against Northern Ireland 13-12 to be able to be in with a chance to making it but ya win some ya loose some thats the way the cookie crumbles.

Onto next year to The Nations Cup in Gibralta.
Blackball Federation of Ireland

08/11/2025

Best of luck to our LD's A Team in Ennis this week 8th - 16th for the Europeans Championships 🎱🇮🇪💪

Megan Olival (Team manager)
A Team :
Liam Daly (Captain)
Georgie Lynam Jnr (Player Rep)
Joseph Monahan
AidanNiall Pollitt
Luca Marrone
Aaron Hennessy
Shane Mc Kevitt

Best of luck to all our boys down there bring it home boys 💪💪💪🇮🇪🇮🇪🎱
And most importantly enjoy yourself no matter how ye do lads 💪🇮🇪🎱🍻🤪😉

18/09/2025

🎱 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 – 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟭! 🎱
The 2025/26 season starts here — your first step toward representing Ireland at the 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗽 (𝗚𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗮𝗿, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) and the 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲)! 🇮🇪🌍

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🗓️ 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲

📅 Saturday, Sept 20th
🔸 10AM – 𝗠𝗲𝗻’𝘀
🔸 1:30 PM – 𝗟𝗗𝘀 & 𝗨𝟮𝟯𝘀

📅 Sunday, Sept 21st
🔸 1PM – 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

📅 Sunday, Sept 28th
🔸 10AM – 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿𝘀
🔸 11AM – 𝗨𝟭𝟱𝘀 & 𝗨𝟭𝟴𝘀

🕘 Times may adjust slightly depending on entries.

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💰 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝘀
🔹 Members – €35
🔹 Non-members – €45
🔹 U18s, U15s & LDs – €15

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📩 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿

1️⃣ Bank Transfer (preferred)
IBAN: IE31IPBS99064234477062

2️⃣ Revolut – Alan Murphy: +353 87 745 3107

📌 Reminder: Payment confirms your entry. Comments under posts will not be counted.

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👟 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲
✅ Plain all-black runners (or similar) now allowed – AGM update
⚠️ Must be entirely black. Strictly enforced.

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⏳ 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
🗓️ Thursday, Sept 18th @ 8 PM
📞 For alternative payment options: Sean Tighe – +353 85 785 8406

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🎯 The road begins here — Gibraltar 🇬🇮 and South Africa 🇿🇦 await.
Every frame matters. Let’s make this season unforgettable! 🎯

20/05/2025

LD's CAPTAINS CUP 2025 competition finished for this year folks 💪🎱🇮🇪

This year we held our Captains cup competition with our A and B teams in groups of there own team Groups.
In the Shamrock Lodge Finglas Dublin.
Last Tuesday night 13th and this Tuesday night 20th May. Thank you very much for allowing us to host this event.

The A and B team players have to fight against each other in races to 4, Top Player in each group (A team group) and (B team group) faces head to head in the final.

This year Georgie Lynam Jnr (Offaly) comes out on top of our A Team group and defeats the Top player out of the B team group Shane Mc Kevitt (Dublin), (4-1) in the final.

Shane played out of his skin in the B team Group winning all round him !!! 👊💪🎱🇮🇪 all of his games no one could beat him 👊💪.

This year we decided that our 6th player for our A team for the Europeans Championships in Ennis this coming November will be the Top player out of our B Team group in this year's Captains Cup so congratulations to Shane Mc Kevitt on being our 6th player this year 🤗🥳.
We have also decided to bring two subs along with us this year so also congratulations to Aaron Hennessy and Luca Marrone 🙌🤗🥳

Well done to all involved 🙌 Liam Daly Joseph Monahan AidanNiall Pollitt Megan Olival
Best of luck to to our A Team going to represent Ireland in Ennis for the Europeans Championships in November 🎱🇮🇪💪.

LD's A Team 🇮🇪🎱:

Liam Daly (Captain)
Georgie Lynam Jnr (Player Representative)
Joe Monahan
Aiden Pollitt
Niall Pollitt
Shane Mc kevitt

Subs:
Aaron Hennessy
Luca Marrone

14/05/2025

19/04/2025

🎱 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗟 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗔𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 🇮🇪

Are you or someone you know living with a 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 and interested in 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗹? Whether you're a total beginner or a seasoned cue master, 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗬𝗢𝗨 to join the 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 for the upcoming season!

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱:

✅ Never played pool before? No problem!
✅ Just play for the craic? We love that energy!
✅ Serious about the sport? Let’s take it to the next level!
✅ Want to represent Ireland someday? What an honour that would be!
✅ Looking to meet new people, have fun, and be part of a supportive team? You’ve found your place!

𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 – we are proud to be under the guidance of the 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, so no matter where you live, you're welcome to be part of our growing community.

𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗? 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗔𝗚𝗘, and one of our committee members will be in touch!

𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘, 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 & 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 this post across our beautiful nation – let’s spread the word and grow the game we love!

16/04/2025

🎱Commiserations to our LDs team losing 13-9 to an excellent Scotland team.🎱

They never gave up and fought all the way.

Improving all the time lads and we couldn't be prouder of you.

Hold your heads up high!💪☘️💚🇮🇪