In the quarter finals of the European Masters Championships Noel Halfpenny lost 5-1 to Brendan Cooney (RoI)

 

Kieran McMahon beat Scotland's Stephen Baillie 5-1 and is now the only NI player left in the European Championships.

 

Kieran played his semi final on Thursday afternoon, beating Eugene Hughes (RoI) 5-1.

 

In the Men's event, Joe Meara lost in the last 32 to Brendan O'Donoghue (RoI) 5-3.

 

Declan Lavery won his last group match 4-2, but just failed to qualify on frame count back.

 

Jordan Brown beat Ireland's Garry Hardiman 5-4 in a thrilling match, in which Brown held a 4-1 lead.

 

Jonathan Nelson pulled off one of the big shocks when he beat former professional Stefan Mazrocis from Holland. 5-3 in the last 32.

 

In the last 16 Jordan Brown lost 5-2 to Brendan O'Donoghue, who previously defeated Joe Meara.

 

Jonathan Nelson lost 5-2 to Germany's Lasse Munstermann, the player who beat number one seed Michael White 5-4 on the black, despite White making three centuries in that match.

 

KIERAN MCMAHON represents NI in the final of the Masters Championship where he will play former World Number 8 Darren Morgan.

THE FINAL

On Friday afternoon at 2 pm, the venue for the final was played in Din Ree restaurant.  Kieran had defeated Darren in the Round Robin sections and the match was of intense interest to both Northern Ireland and Welsh supporters.  Darren went into a 2-0 lead.  Kieran then retrieved a frame to make the score 2-1, but Darren snatched 2 frames, one when in the 4th frame he was 41 points behind with 43 points on the table and in the 5th frame he was 60 adrift with 67 points on the table and he won both frames which made a vast change to the outlook of the match to give him a 4-1 lead.  He went further ahead in the 6th frame to 5-1  Kieran then took frame 7, but Darren again came back on the final frame to win the match 6-2.

Both players seemed to find the lighting conditions difficult and unfortunately this seemed to upset Kieran more than Darren, but in the end Darren came out a worthy winner.

Mens winner was Kevin Van Hove from Belgium.

Ladies winner was Reanne Evans from England.