Paddy More's table was brought back from Pettigo where it had been on loan with a view to starting a club there. Fr. Quigley gave the go-ahead to bring it back to Donegal and it was found in a hut near the Customs Post. Charlie Timony and John Timony brought it back early on morning in a lorry with the help of John Hanna, Packie and Jackie McMullin. As John says..."if that table could talk, it would sing a song!"

The energetic committee collected money and Abbey Billiards were summoned to refurbish the tables. The Vincent dePaul then built an extension in 1980 costing £16,000 and Mr. Seamus O'Callaghan, Secretary of the local St. Vincent dePaul Society was very helpful in facilitating this addition. Seamus prepared the plans and supervised the building work. The Cassidy brothers, Eamonn and John built it and it was grant-aided through AnCo who had, according to Mr. O'Rourke taken on the building of the new extension as a Youth Programme. Before work commenced there had been £2,000 in the club account. The parish donated £2,000, the snooker club £1,600 and the St. Vincent dePaul in Dublin gave a loan of £5,500. The longest serving member of the club at the time was Mr. Charles Harvey of Main Street and it was he who cut the tape at the official opening. Mr. Phil Timony played the first ball in the new facility, which was now called the senior room. The extension was blessed by Very Rev. Monsignor A. Carrabin, P.P., Donegal Town and also present were Very Rev. Dean John Glackin, P.P., Killymard, Mr. John Griffin, Hon. Mayor, Mr. John Hanna, Chairman Donegal Town Snooker Club and Mr. Joseph O'Rourke, President of the St. Patrick's Conference St. Vincent dePaul Society. Sadly Dean Glackin died on January 20, 1981 soon after the opening. Monsignor Carrabin made a point of praising the caretaker Jim Keeney and said that it was a pleasure to see the likes of Charlie Harvey and Phil Timony supporting the venture. He also thanked the St. Vincent dePaul Society which had the responsibility for the overall running of the clubrooms. This addition was a godsend to a busy club and the role of the Vincent dePaul in providing it will always be remembered. My thanks to Master Darragh Kelly a pupil in fifth class in Scoil Aodh Rua agus Nuala for providing me with the information regarding the extension. Darragh is a grandson of Phil Timony.

There was a coke furnace near to where the oil tank is now at the rear of the building and this had been the source of heat prior to 1980. Now a boiler could be added to the snooker rooms and this was an important feature of the new premises. The club paid for the electricity, insurance cover and other essentials during this period and was self-sufficient. The club could now provide an extra table and soon afterwards a fourth snooker table was purchased.

The current venue is only in place thanks to the dedication of public-spirited individuals during the mid-seventies. A huge debt of gratitude is owed the likes of Jack Keeney who ran games of twenty-five on Sunday nights as a fund-raising measure. Future generations must remember the deeds of the lads from the fifties who built a club from nothing and those from the seventies who revived it.

The club is self-financing and this state of affairs is a tribute to those committees and in particular the treasurers who operated on a shoestring over a long period. The purchase of two pool tables in 1999 on the initiative of Martin Mulhern has provided an added source of revenue to the club and the increased membership in recent years has swelled the coffers and allowed the club to begin renovating the interior of the fifty-year-old building. Second-hand bench seating has been installed while a three quarter-sized snooker table has been bought for the junior beginners. More remains to be done, while the endemic problem of cigarette smoke needs to be seriously addressed before the club is legally compelled to act. One hundred and forty juniors being subjected to a smoky atmosphere is not conducive to health.

The increased traffic on the tables has not helped the playing surfaces and the cloths and rubbers will have to be replaced more often at £400 a throw. With seven tables in the club, this is a major financial burden but paradoxically it is a welcome one.

Tom Plunkett and Seamus Faulkner launched a website in July 2000 with the intention of informing both current and former members of club activities and news. Although it is not an official site, by October 31, 2001 it had received 3000 hits and had been accessed by snooker fans from a multitude of countries such as Malaysia, Australia, U.S.A., U.K., Mexico, Hong Kong, Egypt, Malta, Denmark, New Zealand, Holland, China, South Africa and India. Some snooker fans came on it by accident, while emigrants from Donegal have used it to keep in touch with happenings at home. E-mails have arrived from England, New Zealand, Chicago, Italy and Holland both requesting information and sending greetings to those in Donegal Town. The website also hosted the County League in 2000-2001 and it was a great way of keeping participants informed regarding fixtures, results, tables, etc.