CLUB HISTORY

Donegal Town Snooker Club will be 50 years in its current location in 2002. Built by Canon McMullin as a sporting outlet for the youth of the town, it has had its ups and downs over the years. The Snooker Club's tables have been erected in both halves of the Four Masters' Clubrooms in the past half-century and many hundreds of people have been members during that period. The following article is an attempt to record the history of billiards and snooker in this town and to acknowledge the efforts made by many people to provide an indoor sporting facility for this town, often against the odds. The article is based almost entirely on oral interviews conducted over a long period as very little in the way of written records has survived. In any oral history there will probably be errors but these will hopefully be few and far between. Donegal Town Snooker Club has not commissioned this article and the views expressed are solely those of the author. (Tom Plunkett, November 1, 2001)