Paddy Donnelly lifted the first Billiard ranking event of the season when he beat former professional Tommy Murphy by 600 points to 320. Paddy also lifted the high break prize in the top eight players section when he recorded a brilliant 182 to bypass the previous best of 107 by Davy Pogue. Tommy took the top break for the players outside the top eight with a nice 83, also in the final. The match was refereed by Eddie Bull.
Cheques were presented by George Thompson of the Reading Rooms, in front of a large crowd. Results from the quarterfinals are as follows:-
| P. Donnelly
54, 51 | 400 | B. Broome
| 280 | ||
| D. Pogue
107, 51 | 400 | P. Lawlor
| 290 | ||
| T. Murphy
| 400 | B. Kerr
| 310 | ||
| T. Buttimer
| 400 | D. Elliott
| 270 |
| P. Donnelly
58, 46, 42, 41, 40 | 500 | D. Pogue
58, 52, 41 | 302 | ||
| T. Murphy
66, 52 | 500 | T. Buttimer
47, 46 | 401 |
| P. Donnelly
182, 51, 48, 39, 38, 31 | 600 | T. Murphy
83, 39, 36 | 320 |
The annual international between Northern Ireland and England was held on Saturday and Sunday 16th-17th January for the Friendly Cup. The match took place in the seaside resort town of Bangor, Co. Down, in the Bangor Reading Rooms. England travelled with a party of 25. The match was sponsored by The Irish News with the teams staying at the Bangor Bay Inn Hotel, who kindly offered a special weekend rate to the Billiards Association.
| Northern Ireland | England | ||||
| mmy Clarke
108, 70 | 500 | Stephen Crosland
41 | 373 | ||
| David Elliot
171, 141, 51, 43 | 500 | Peter Shelley
| 81 | ||
| Tony Buttimer
65 | 103 | Darren Kell
153, 63, 50 | 500 | ||
| David Pogue
62 | 258 | Phil Welham
116, 80, 54 | 500 | ||
| Paddy Donnelly
63, 50 | 316 | Paul Bennett
110, 91, 62 | 500 | ||
| Freddie Cahoon
50 | 500 | Terry Colby
74, 71 | 371 | ||
| Eugene Rogan
| 500 | Paul Dunning
| 441 | ||
| Trevor Shield
51 | 500 | Jim McCann
56 | 408 | ||
| Northern Ireland | England | ||||
| John McIntyre
| 0 | Paul Dunning
| 3 | ||
| Tommy Taylor
| 0 | Jim McCann
| 3 | ||
| mmy Clarke
| 3 | Terry Colby
| 0 | ||
| David Elliot
121 | 1 | Paul Bennett
| 2 | ||
| Tony Buttimer
| 3 | Phil Welham
| 0 | ||
| David Pogue
126 | 1 | Darren Kell
| 2 | ||
| Paddy Donnelly
114 | 1 | Peter Shelley
88unf | 2 | ||
| Freddie Cahoon
| 0 | Stephen Crosland
| 3 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ||||
| Northern Ireland | England | ||||
| ephen Brown
| 500 | Dean Bavister
| 392 | ||
| Aaron Cahoon
| 500 | Matthew Sutton
| 405 | ||
| Maynard Hamilton
| 500 | James Chambers
| 382 | ||
| Northern Ireland | England | ||||
| Maynard Hamilton
| 2 | Matthew Sutton
| 1 | ||
| ephen Brown
| 3 | James Chambers
| 0 | ||
| Aaron Cahoon
| 3 | Dean Bavister
| 0 | ||
| 11 | 1 | ||||