Talented players have always graced the club and not just in snooker. Peter Meehan was very good at billiards and G. Doherty would also give 80 up to anyone. Billiards competitions were played in the club during the fifties but few members would play the game today. A lot of billiards was played in the Shamrock and people like Tommy O'Donnell and John McGettigan were regular players. Skittles was also played and it required four white wooden targets and a black one. Harry Diver loved skittles with perhaps a shilling or two as a stake. A variation of the game is still played in CYMS in Letterkenny to this day. They are still in the club press but unfortunately they don't see the light of day. A recent request from New Zealand for the rules of Skittles (called Pins down there) shows how popular the game was around the world. Hopefully, the rules of this game will be discovered soon so that others may once again enjoy the challenge of a very different game.Vincent Granaghan returned to the club in mid-2000 and golf has been played regularly since after a gap of 10 years. Golf (a game for four or eight players and involving the eight colours) seems to have been unique to Donegal Town in the county and I have heard no mention of it anywhere else. Apparently it awakened Fergal O'Brien's interest in the game as a ten year old in Dublin and there's no doubt that the cut and thrust of the game adds a competitive edge to a player's game. There was a time when nothing but golf was being played to the detriment of snooker, but now a nice balance exists between the two games. Peter Meehan, Tommy O'Donnell, Jim McGowan & John McGettigan always played golf together in the seventies and they were great to watch. Other great rivals included Harry Diver, Jack Keeney, Vincent, Alex McGinley and Paddy Kelly. Watching them trying to manipulate their opponents was a spectacle in itself! Another game played was Boston Pool, a game where six players secretly drew a coloured ball before a game of snooker. If someone potted your ball, you were out of the game; nobody knew in advance who had which ball! The younger players in the club occasionally play the game today, as it's great for coping with big queues on busy nights. Lives or Killers were also excellent games, involving as many as six players in a contest of good potting and strategy.